From f1c15cc23422f20dfa562f8a74c29cf343e61985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jaseg Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 00:42:13 +0100 Subject: README.md: What CRC again? --- README.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 1dd4eee..4323195 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Mate Light .. image:: http://cbag3.c-base.org/media/cache/artefact_show/uploads/assets/52f6c9c16c72d.jpeg -Transform a bunch of empty mate crates to a huge display using a 14 year old laptop, a 13US$ microcontroller board and a couple of cheap chinese christmas lights. +Transform a bunch of empty mate crates to a huge display using a 15 year old laptop, a 13US$ microcontroller board and a couple of cheap chinese christmas lights. Hardware Setup -------------- @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The control software is a Python script accepting framebuffer data via UDP and t Architecture ~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The server listens on TCP and UDP ports 1337. Any text arriving through TCP is rendered as a marquee, interpreting ANSI escape sequences (colors, blink etc.). The UDP port accepts CRAP, our Custom advanced video stReAming Protocol. A CRAP packet contains three bytes of RGB data per pixel in 16 rows of 40 columns (i.e. ``[R0,0 G0,0 B0,0 R0,1 G0,1 B0,1 ... R0,39 G0,39 B0,39 R1,0 G1,0 B1,0 ... R15,39 G15,39 B15,39]``) and an optional trailing CRC32 checksum. +The server listens on TCP and UDP ports 1337. Any text arriving through TCP is rendered as a marquee, interpreting ANSI escape sequences (colors, blink etc.). The UDP port accepts CRAP, our Custom advanced video stReAming Protocol. A CRAP packet contains three bytes of RGB data per pixel in 16 rows of 40 columns (i.e. ``[R0,0 G0,0 B0,0 R0,1 G0,1 B0,1 ... R0,39 G0,39 B0,39 R1,0 G1,0 B1,0 ... R15,39 G15,39 B15,39]``). There is at least one further server implementation of CRAP in the form of an `HTML5 CRAP emulator`_. There is `a Python script that plays gifs over CRAP`_. -- cgit