Repo for my project of building a 1RU "blinky light bar" for a standard rack using a Raspberry Pico and 8x8 7219 matrix boards
Plenty of guides and setups on how to inialize a Pico. All of this was done with Thonny (https://thonny.org/) and micropython.
The original lib for the matrix7219 is from
https://github.com/mcauser/micropython-max7219
I made some changes specifically for this project. The original is still in the lib folder renamed to "original_max7219.py"
Hardware used: Matrix 7219 (8x8) Similar to: Amazon Example: Amazon Search Matrix 7219 modules AliExpress: AliExpress Search for Matric 7219 modiles
1RU vent panel Similar to: Amazon: 1U Perforated Rack Panel
Raspberry Pico I used both the Pico 2 and Pico Original - with the header pins pre-installed. Cloned Picos work as well.
Notes: Fonts Font to MicroPython