This repository contains design documents and firmware source code for a number of LED displays designed to show IceCube event data.
A Steamshovel artist was written using pyusb to enable remote rendering. This allows people already familiar with the IceCube offline event viewer to also be quickly able to get a new LED display up and running.
The display firmware is written using bare-metal C to provide close integration with the hardware.
Writing a new firmware implementation can take up quite some time, so try to re-use an existing
design if possible. All source code is contained in the firmware directory.
Source code documentation containing guidelines for new display and a short description of existing displays can be compiled using Doxygen:
$ doxygen Doxyfile
A copy of the documentation may be found at http://icecube.wisc.edu/~svanheule/icecube-display.
Builds of the microcontroller firmwares can be found at http://icecube.wisc.edu/~svanheule/images. These builds can be used to upgrade existing devices, or provide a starting point for uploading the device EEPROM when using a new device.
The hardware directory contains design documents for the displays.
This includes both mechanical documents for the display construction, as well as possible
PCB design documents.