AnimatedGIFs is meant to be a basic GIF player. The sketch is short, and should be easy to understand and modify to make your own custom display. Here are some ideas of what to do next:

Try scrolling text on top of a GIF to make a marquee display or clock with animated background.

Run the SmartMatrix FeatureDemo Example Sketch to see what the display is capable of, and get code to copy into your Sketch.

Connect up more stuff.

There are still pins left over on the expansion header after connecting up the SD card. There are pins free to connect up peripherals via I2C, UART, ADC or GPIO.

Make and Share GIFs

If you make a cool animation you want to share online, please post it to the SmartMatrix Community forum, where community members have been building up a collection

Acknowledgements

Craig Lindley - Original author of the AnimatedGIFs sketch, and is the first person to write a GIF decoder running on a Teensy, which months later still impresses me.

Micah Elizabeth Scott - Author of the awesome Fadecandy project, which has beautiful example patterns written for Processing. The "Pattern" demo for this guide came from a Fadecandy example.

Discord Games - The Pixel Art used in the demo is used with permission from Discord Games, Inc., makers of Chasm

Guide written by Louis Beaudoin (Pixelmatix.com) CC-BY-SA

This guide was first published on Oct 16, 2014. It was last updated on Oct 16, 2014.

This page (Next Steps) was last updated on Oct 13, 2014.

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