Stock Ticker: Controlling three chains of 16x32 RGB LED displays using Raspberry Pi.

Contributers

The LED-matrix library is (c) Henner Zeller h.zeller@acm.org, licensed with [GNU General Public License Version 2.0].

RSS parser was initally developed by chubbyemu.

Overview

The following project utlizes three 16x32 RGB LED matrix panels that are chained in order to display scrolling stock data acquired from www.nasdaq.com.

Required Materials

1. Raspberry Pi 3 (Ubuntu Mate) 1.1 5V power supply
2. Adafruit 16x32 LED matrix (3) 2.1 5V power supply
3. F-F jumper wires (13)
4. M-M jumper wires (4)
5. Female DC power supply

Connecting Raspberry to LED matrix

1. Grab Raspberry Pi and note the pins

2. Grab 1 Adafruit 16x32 LED matrix and note the pins

3. Connect Rasberry

4. Connect LED matrix

5. Chain 3 displays

6. Wire the chains

Running the script

To call the script use:

$ python rssparse.py

The console should display: