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Modern DMD LED matrix software for Raspberry Pi (Plug & Play for existing RPi2DMD users)

Hi everyone,

For the past few days I've been working on \*\*ArcadeMatrix\*\*, an open-source LED matrix software for Raspberry Pi designed for HUB75 panels.

It started because I wanted something more modern than the existing solutions: smoother animations, a nicer web interface, easier customization, and a modular architecture that makes adding new features much simpler.

Today it supports things like animated clocks, GIFs, videos, scrolling text, weather, Stock Actions/Crypto, Recalbox/Batocera Sync, Gifs playlists, a REST API and much more.

\### Already have an RPi2DMD clock?

If you're already using an \*\*RPi2DMD\*\* setup, you don't need to change your hardware.

Just flash the latest ArcadeMatrix image to another microSD of card 16Gb minimum to try it out! 

configure your Wi-Fi, boot the Raspberry Pi... and you're ready to go. It's essentially a plug-and-play replacement.

\### Why I made it

This wasn't about reinventing the wheel.

I simply wanted a cleaner architecture, smoother rendering, a modern web UI, and something that would be easy to extend without digging through thousands of lines of tightly coupled code.

\### There's also an ESP32 version

I also have an \*\*ESP32 version\*\* running very well.

I haven't released it yet because publishing a project properly takes time: writing documentation, installation guides, examples, cleaning the repository, answering questions, maintaining it...

If the Raspberry Pi version gets enough interest from the community, I'll happily put in the effort to release and maintain the ESP32 version as well.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, feature requests or bug reports.

GitHub:

https://github.com/red77290/ArcadeMatrix\_RPI

Video:

https://youtu.be/vAK880Io8yo?is=nK-UlYRYMIY06Qo4

Thanks for reading! 🙂

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u/Tough_Ad4995 — 8 days ago
▲ 8 r/batocera+3 crossposts

Modern DMD LED matrix software for Raspberry Pi (Plug & Play for existing RPi2DMD users)

Hi everyone,

For the past few days I've been working on **ArcadeMatrix**, an open-source LED matrix software for Raspberry Pi designed for HUB75 panels.

It started because I wanted something more modern than the existing solutions: smoother animations, a nicer web interface, easier customization, and a modular architecture that makes adding new features much simpler.

Today it supports things like animated clocks, GIFs, videos, scrolling text, weather, Stock Actions/Crypto, Recalbox/Batocera Sync, Gifs playlists, a REST API and much more.

### Already have an RPi2DMD clock?

If you're already using an **RPi2DMD** setup, you don't need to change your hardware.

Just flash the latest ArcadeMatrix image to another microSD of card 16Gb minimum to try it out! 

configure your Wi-Fi, boot the Raspberry Pi... and you're ready to go. It's essentially a plug-and-play replacement.

### Why I made it

This wasn't about reinventing the wheel.

I simply wanted a cleaner architecture, smoother rendering, a modern web UI, and something that would be easy to extend without digging through thousands of lines of tightly coupled code.

### There's also an ESP32 version

I also have an **ESP32 version** running very well.

I haven't released it yet because publishing a project properly takes time: writing documentation, installation guides, examples, cleaning the repository, answering questions, maintaining it...

If the Raspberry Pi version gets enough interest from the community, I'll happily put in the effort to release and maintain the ESP32 version as well.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, feature requests or bug reports.

GitHub:

https://github.com/red77290/ArcadeMatrix\_RPI

Video:

https://youtu.be/vAK880Io8yo?is=nK-UlYRYMIY06Qo4

Thanks for reading! 🙂

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u/Tough_Ad4995 — 13 days ago
▲ 137 r/Arcade1Up+5 crossposts

I made a Free Smart Tool to Convert Video or GIF to any DMD Format effortlessly

Before anything else: I'm not selling anything.

This is a completely free and open-source project that I built for my own DMD clock. I'm sharing it simply because I figured there might be other people here facing the same problem and it could save them some time.

If nobody uses it, that's fine. If it helps a few people with their projects, even better.

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I was too lazy to make animations for my DMD clock, so I built a free open-source tool.

The goal was simple:

Search a GIF.

Click Convert.

Get a DMD-ready animation.

No manual cropping.

No color tweaking.

No tracking setup.

No frame-by-frame editing.

Just search and convert.

It started as a simple script to convert GIFs for a 128x32 HUB75 LED matrix driven by an ESP32.

The problem was that standard video resizing looks terrible on low-resolution displays: subjects become unreadable, colors get washed out, and most GIFs simply don't look good.

If you're using DMDs, HUB75 matrices, virtual pinball, arcade cabinets, LED marquees, or similar displays, I'd love to hear your feedback.

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What was supposed to be a small weekend script eventually turned into a full desktop application.

Main features:

• Convert videos and GIFs to DMD / LED matrix formats

• "Let Me Handle It" mode (one-click automatic conversion with sensible defaults)

• Automatic action framing using YOLOv8

• Smart color enhancement for LED displays

• Batch conversion

• Built-in GIF search and download

• Per-file settings and presets

• Automatic DMD quality scoring to identify animations that will look good (or bad) on a low-resolution display

• Windows and Linux support

The philosophy behind the project is simple:

Search → Convert → Upload

The software handles the tedious stuff automatically so you don't have to spend hours tweaking settings or editing frames manually.

GitHub:

Dmd_gif_converter

I'd love to hear feedback, feature requests, or see what kind of projects people are using it for.

u/Tough_Ad4995 — 2 months ago