Thanks for your answer. I just was not sure if I had it set up right. I have been giving some thought about what to do with the lower half of the 32 x32 display. I love the Twitter or message torch (@luz#TYVM for that) .
If we combine the two projects and get a clock that also displays messages or tweets
i.e. a PING from your friends - you can see where I am going…
We will end up with a ping - pong clock
What do you think @BulldogLowell? Is that something you could do (because it is way beyond me )
Could that be set up so that it displays either
A) no message because we turned the function off in the code.
B) The last tweet sent to a specific account
C) a particle.function that could be set in particle dev.
@Julian, one of the clock faces is a scrolling display with time on top and whatever you want on the bottom. It would be super easy to add twitter below with an extra webhook and some code.
“Super easy” I hear you say. The other idea was an analogue clock face. On a 32 x32 that might work but a 16 x 32 might be too small. One of those 32x64 would be perfect.
Now that we can create webhooks via the dashboard it should be easier to modify the Pong Clock code to get local weather pulled in to be displayed on screen.
I have been able to get everything accomplished I wanted so far via the web build IDE and now I can create webhooks via the dashboard so I love how things are getting easier.
I plan on making a custom Time/Date/Weather/Inside Temp/ clock face as soon as I figure out how to create my first weather webhook for openweather in the near future.
Though it would require some minor changes, you should be able to change that text with ‘simple’ function calls. Shouldn’t be too bad though. Have a look at the “scroll text” functions in the code
@peekay123 Yea I have always known that code was there but I was under the impression I had or use the particle CLI to get the webhooks running on my Photon and to date I have never installed or use the CLI program.
I figured out how to use the Webhook builder to pull in my local weather from OpenWeatherMap so I’m happy to say I now know how to use webhooks and they are indeed powerful
@peekay123, were you using a different version then what’s on GitHub on the panel at the Faire? I remember seeing the pong mode having paddles (and mine doesn’t)… Or I’m crazy…
@justinmy, the pin-out on the new RGB Matrix Shield is different than my old shield so the previous software version on the other repo won’t work with the new shield.
Hey @gur001 – the kit isn’t currently available on our store, although we do have additional inventory available after the Faire. We’ll post an update to the community if and when they’re made available!
@gur001, I was hoping to sell complete boards so no for now. I’m working with Particle to see what they will be doing with the kits left over from Maker Faire to decide what I do next.
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