Hi, Mr. Calhoun! I’m sorry this is such an unorthodox way of reaching out to you, and I know this is probably off topic for the original thread, but I couldn’t really find another way to contact you. I had posted this same message on a comment yesterday, but it was pretty deep in a thread, so I thought I’d try again. I’m trying to get in touch with you about your raspberry pi TV project. I’m a 16 year old high school student, and my best friend loves retro tv and custom gifts, so I figured a great going away to college gift would be a project like this, loaded with all his favorite old (legally obtained) tv shows, and the videos of various musicals we’ve done together. I’ve been looking for a project very similar to yours for a few months now, and the closest thing I’ve found is a video describing a portable version of the project by a YouTube channel called Irish Craig Party. Unfortunately, it was the only video on the channel, the comments were turned off, and they had zero social media/github attached to the channel. I had to keep looking around for similar projects. I was totally willing to do some of the coding myself, but some fundamental challenges like the scheduling or the real time playback were a bit too intense for my admittedly barebones coding skills. Now I humbly come to you. You had mentioned that you were planning to open source it in a thread from a while ago, but you were debugging. Is there any way to get the code for this? I already have the vast majority of the parts, I’m willing to debug and modify it in any way, I just need the foundations. Thank you for hearing me out, I’m sorry for not finding a better way to reach out, and thank you for your time.

For discussing custom dance pad designs, I love this discord:

https://discord.gg/TCn3emnwZU

My attempt is the one where you have one USB-C board per pad, so that I can use USB-PD instead of an external power source to drive the LEDs

Nice. I put together a PIU pad using a cheap Exceed Xbox pad attached to a plywood base with double sided painters tape and wrapped the whole thing in clear gauge vinyl. I use it with a variant of Stepmania called StepF2.

Attached a USB adapter and it's been my primary form of HIIT exercise for years now!