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I'm about to order a EzSBC1 board for building a long dot-matrix display using multiple MAX7219 Dot matrix modules. Do you think the speed will suffice for scrolling ten or more 8x8 dot displays (address+data totals 1280 bits) in real time? I assume this can be done by outputting string data on the serial pins? The MAX7219 module needs a clock pulse for each data bit: "For the MAX7219, serial data at DIN, sent in 16-bit packets, is shifted into the internal 16-bit shift register with each rising edge of CLK"
Re Mac OS:
Reading the somewhat daunting info in "OS X D2XX Library Version 1.2.2" with all those sudo commands, is there someone on this forum who has interfaced to a Mac and can advice, if needed?
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(I run the slightly antiquated OS X 10.6.8, and have had positive experience with a PIC PicoBasic microcontroller, which only needs the USB port recognized and set for operation; the only problem is its speed, only about 1000 instructions/sec, and limited instruction set; only 12 commands - the EzSBC1 is supposed to be 50 times faster and has a fantastic interpreter...)