“Ordered a couple of these - both USB-C sockets were hanging off and one of the RP2040 IC was not soldered on correctly either. Luckily I have the facilities and equipment to 'repair' these but for someone who doesn't it would be an issue. I think QC needs a QC check. Once the soldering and re-fixing of the USB-C ports was complete, I am happy to say both units worked as expected and are very easy to use following Pimoronis quick guide. Just be gentle with the USB-C sockets!!”
Ahoy Nigel
So sorry to hear that - if you have photos of the boards before you repaired them please could you send them along to support@pimoroni.com so we can pass them on to our production team?
“My original I75 board had a few problems. I contacted Pimorini for technical advice. I was promtly contacted and professionally assissted in troubleshooting the issue. A replacement board was sent immediately. I tested the new board in accordance with the installation protocol. It functioned flawlessly. I could not be happerier with the board, the technical assistance and the integrety of Pimorini.”
“The Interstate 75 makes it very easy to get any RGB matrix up and running in no time at all. It has pins to allow inputs into the board and incorporate into your code.”
“Pimoroni Interstate 75 is a great piece of HW. Works very fast, and the instructions on Pimoroni's web site on how to use it is fantastic. Got it to work in a very short time using python. Love it!”
“Having previously used the Plasma range, I wanted to run something with a few more LEDs. So this was ideal for a 32x64 P3 LED matrix. As with previous uses, this was for a fight timer for our little ant-weight battle bot arenas. The benefit of the HUB75 displays over the lower density WS2812b 8x32 displays, is that they had wider and easier use of fonts and image libraries. In the first draft, I used the Jpeg library for the loading screen. But the low-quality nature of jpegs compression meant solid black was often displayed with a hint of other colours and a bit of blocking. I will probably move from MicroPython to another language which will enable easy use of BMP images, where the colours remain exactly what I want them to be!!!”
Ahoy Neil
Thanks for the reviews - your scoreboards look great!
I think our software folks are currently working on PNG support in MicroPython / PicoGraphics - that should help a lot with reproducing sharp icons without the jpg artefacting :)
