colorful scrolling text on an led matrix display, showing rss feed weather and time

this is a circuitpython script for an adafruit matrix portal m4 and a 64x32 led matrix display it can display rss feeds from miniflux, the weather from wttr.in and the time using aio

i like looking at it since it’s nice and blinky but have to turn it off sometimes because it’s also very distracting

finding a font for it was very weird. first i tried the pico8 font, but that was honestly a bit too big and also used too much power for running it from a usb 2.0 port but then i found a website with a bunch of retro fonts and the paradise systems one just kinda spoke to me very nice and blocky with cool serifs

 using it yourself

  • install circuitpython on your matrixportal
  • clone the git repo
  • fill out the secrets.py file with your data
  • copy the contents of the git repo onto your matrixportal
  • plug in

if you want to use a different microcontroller or display u can probably figure out what to do yourself or write your own script