The tube was 56 px wide while its dome (radius 28) spans 57, so the dome
overshot the right wall by a pixel; tubes are now 57 px. The Nixie digits
at size 110 were up to 60 px wide (plus the 1 px glow) in a 55 px tube;
size 90 fits, and each digit is clipped to the inside of its glass.
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tools/render_pages.py compiles the page code natively with g++ against
ESPHome's own display and font code and the font bitmaps of the last
`esphome compile`, and draws pages to PNG at chosen moments with sample
data (normal, empty, alert, busy), as a contact sheet, or as one example
per page in docs/images/pages (now shown in the README).
Fixes found with it: Cyber HUD zone names ran into the temperatures,
the breach header label hit the tag and the column marker the matrix
label; KonoSuba subtitle, guild weather icon, cabbage text and all-day
deadline, and hills through the party; Steins;Gate D-mail recipient, the
microwave display, the gadget card value and world line labels; LCARS
room rows, readout bars and data cascade, warp core readouts, and the
captain's log weather wording.
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- el512_panel.cpp: esp_cpu_get_cycle_count() exists only in ESP-IDF 5;
use cpu_hal_get_cycle_count() on 4.4 (Arduino 2.x), which broke both
PlatformIO environments.
- README: ring-buffer refresh, tear-free status, D1 mini ESP32, new layout
(components/el512, esphome/, home_assistant/), ESPHome setup, Still Alive
paths, and the Wi-Fi blanking findings with wiring advice.
- docs/README: ring, lookup table, double buffer, health counters; tear-free
and memory items done; Wi-Fi blanking and boot blanking as open items.
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The source page splits some lines into several spans; a browser renders the
whitespace between them as a space, which the importer dropped ("becausewe").
It now adds that space. Regenerated imported.h.
Add a photo of the demo on the panel to the README.
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Uninverted, the rising BCK edge landed on the boundary between byte pairs,
so the panel sampled data mid-change and the image jittered. Inverted, the
edge sits mid-pair; verified stable on the panel. Also note the row-stripe
brightness drift as an open item.
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PCNT measurement showed I2S0 BCK (VCLK) rising once per two bytes in 8-bit
LCD mode, so the panel saw every other byte. Each VCLK is now two identical
bytes at a 10 MHz byte rate (VCLK 5 MHz). The doubled ~142 KB stream is
allocated as 38 per-descriptor chunks.
The test sketch now cycles through 12 labelled test images.
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The datasheet numbers columns from 1 (Fig. 3: "row 1", "Last pixel
(512 / 256)") and puts odd columns on TVID, so x = 0 (column 1) now
goes to TVID and x = 1 to VID; the encoder had them swapped.
README wiring now lists the J1/J2 pins and power rails from Table 1,
the 5 V buffer, and a pull-down on ENABLE so the panel stays off while
the ESP32 boots without VCLK. encodeRow() documents its T4/T5 margins.
docs/README.md open items are regrouped into done, hardware checks and
software work. main.cpp counts seconds, not frames.
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The datasheet (docs/datasheet, Planar 020-0354-00A) is now stated as the
source of truth. Two-bit mode is PS1 jumper 2 (DCONFIG) removed
(Table 3), not a generic "mode jumper". The README timing table now lists
the Table 5/6 limits beside our values, and the notes add T1-T8, the
8 ns setup/hold from Figure 4 and the input levels from Table 4.
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startI2S() sets up I2S0 in 8-bit parallel (LCD) mode at 5 MHz
(PLL_D2 160 MHz / 32, BCK div 1), routes stream bits 0..3 to
VID/TVID/HS/VS via I2S0O_DATA_OUT16+n and BCK to VCLK, and loops
DMA over an 18-descriptor chain of whole lines. stopI2S() stops TX,
returns the pins to GPIO low and frees the chain.
encodeRow() now stores clock c at c ^ 2 to match the 8-bit mode
byte order (bytes 2, 3, 0, 1 per word, as in bitluni's ESP32Lib).
Builds with no warnings; not yet checked on hardware.
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PlatformIO skeleton (esp32dev, Arduino, Adafruit GFX) with a local EL512
library: EL512Panel (1 bpp framebuffer, two-bit-mode row encoder, I2S DMA
refresh stub) and EL512_GFX (Adafruit_GFX subclass). Adds a test sketch,
pin map, README with wiring and timing, and moves the datasheet to
docs/datasheet/.
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