Sometimes you need to display something, and the tiny screens on the market aren't quite enough. Fortunately with the advent of outdoor LED billboards and televisions, there are affordable prefabricated LED matrixes that can be simply driven with a PWM signal, even straight from a microcontroller and from memory with DMA with enough power and speed!
I chose to use the LVGL graphics/ui library for this as well, to more easily make complex graphics like this ISS tracking map. EEZ Studio is a great free tool for designing these GUIs and exporting the results straight to LVGL C code. Imagine the possibilities of a network-connected display with plenty of processing capability on the backend! You could drive a robot over WiFi, control and debug CNC machines, or just put up your own ethernet-enabled "IoT" screen on the wall!
See full instructions at our website linked below!
https://www.netburner.com/learn/external-libraries-lvgl-led-display/
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