NEW GUIDE: Star Trek LCARS Display @adafruit @johnedgarpark #startrek

In this new Learn Guide, John Park shows how to build an animated backlit display case for a Star Trek Enterprise-D LCARS panel!

My friend worked on the TV series Star Trek: Picard and received this LCARS panel as a gift from the art director.  On it’s own the panel doesn’t look like much, just a sort of dark piece of acrylic — it really needs to be backlit, and ideally animated. He asked if I could build a backlit display for him to show it off in his home, and I said “heck yes”!

The combination of a light blocker layer and animated sprite sheet make it possible to turn different areas of the display interface “on” and “off”, as well as adjust brightness and pattern. This uses the Matrix Portal running CircuitPython to drive a 128 x 64 pixel RGB LED matrix.


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