# Photon 32 x 32 LED and Animated GIFs **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 26, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524 "2016-11-26T12:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/1 "2016-11-26T12:50:13Z")
Does anyone know of library or instructable that has a walk through of using the RGB Matrix library with a 32x32 RGB LED display to play back animated GIFs? Thanks, Ande ---
**Author:** ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/2 "2016-11-26T13:04:42Z")
Have you had a look at these already [RGB Pixel Clock Kit (Maker Faire 2016)](https://community.particle.io/t/rgb-pixel-clock-kit-maker-faire-2016/23049) [Word Clock kit (Maker Faire 2016)](https://community.particle.io/t/word-clock-kit-maker-faire-2016/23048) [Maker Faire RGBPongClock](https://community.particle.io/t/maker-faire-rgbpongclock/11813/71) AFAIK in the linked GitHub repo is a demo. But @peekay123 knows best 😉 > **[pkourany/RGBMatrixPanel-Shield-V4-Test-app](https://github.com/pkourany/RGBMatrixPanel-Shield-V4-Test-app)** > > Contribute to RGBMatrixPanel-Shield-V4-Test-app development by creating an account on GitHub. ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/3 "2016-11-26T13:19:38Z")
thanks, yes I’ve been running sample code from this set. it’s great - but I’m struggling to find the GIF one - maybe I’m just being dumb 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/4 "2016-11-26T13:45:03Z")
In that GitHub repo I linked above you can find this file > ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/5 "2016-11-26T13:47:50Z")
thank you! 🙂 I’ll give this a go ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/6 "2016-11-26T14:14:07Z")
@ScruffR, thanks for helping! The repo and files you pointed to are correct. @fablab, do keep in mind, however, that the RGBMatrixPanel library can only do 4096 colors and many GIFs will not appear correctly due to this fact. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/7 "2016-11-26T14:15:21Z")
Thanks both. Is there any way of adding all the files from the Animated GIF example in one go - rather than appending individually in the IDE? ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/8 "2016-11-26T14:23:23Z")
@fablab, not sure what you mean. The GIF animator will read and display all valid .gif files in the “/gifs” directory on the SD card. ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/9 "2016-11-26T14:35:50Z")
in terms of flashing the firmware into the Photon - is there a simple way to take all the .cpp and .h files into the IDE with a single import. Currently I’m adding file by file ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/10 "2016-11-26T14:54:59Z")
@fablab, unfortunately, not right now. The upcoming updates to the IDE and libraries will make this a lot simpler. In the meantime, I strongly recommend using Particle CLI for compiling and flashing. It allows you to compile files in a local directory using Particle cloud compilers. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/11 "2016-11-26T14:58:11Z")
ah! thanks _goes hunting for CLI tutorials_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/12 "2016-12-04T12:00:52Z")
@peekay123 I’m seeing this error when I compile the libraries and files from within Particle IDE. Any thoughts, suggestions? In file included from iostream.cpp:23:0: istream.h:32:8: error: ‘istream’ does not name a type inline istream& ws(istream& is) { istream.h:82:8: error: ‘istream’ does not name a type inline istream &operator\>\>(istream &obj, const setfill &arg) { istream.h:112:8: error: ‘istream’ does not name a type inline istream &operator\>\>(istream &is, const setprecision &arg) { ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/13 "2016-12-05T14:43:11Z")
@fablab, sorry for the delay. I suggest that you use Particle CLI to compile the code with all the files being in one directory. From the errors, it sounds like a file is either missing or there was a cut and paste issue when copying files to the IDE. ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/14 "2016-12-11T22:03:17Z")
got it working. it’s very cool! now to design a heap of funky GIFs thank you 😄 ---
**Author:** ![fablab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/fablab/32/12156_2.png) [@fablab](https://community.particle.io/u/fablab)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/15 "2016-12-14T22:27:59Z")
@peekay123 sorry random question here, I’m trying to incorporate Blynk into the RGB animated GIF demo you created - I’m assuming this would just as simpe as adding the relevant libraries and the Blynk code into the AnimatedGIFs.cpp file? Or am I missing something. Any pointers would be very much appreciated please. Thanks, Ande ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/16 "2016-12-15T00:17:19Z")
@fablab, you’re on the right track! The RGBMatrixPanel interrupts can be heavy so it will be interesting to see how Blynk works. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hgrs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@hgrs](https://community.particle.io/u/hgrs)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/17 "2019-06-14T20:19:03Z")
Hey, is that possible to do that with a 22x22 led matrix ? I only have 500 RGB led 😕 Henri ---
**Author:** ![ScruffR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/scruffr/32/6952_2.png) [@ScruffR](https://community.particle.io/u/ScruffR)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-32-x-32-led-and-animated-gifs/27524/18 "2019-06-14T23:36:36Z")
The RGB panels have very specific control circuitry built-in for which the mentioned library is tailored. So while you may be able to find a way to control your 22x22 matrix, this library will _not_ work for that. However, with 500 individual LEDs you’ll have a job controlling them without a dedicated control circuit and lots of soldering 😉