The RP2350 Does 1080p | Hackaday

Coaxing a DVI sign out of a microcontroller to drive a DVI or HDMI display screen has been attainable for some time now, however limitations in what the gadgets can do has, in flip, positioned a restrict on the decision that may be delivered. Now [Aaron Gayle] has damaged by way of a barrier by generating 1080p video from an RP2350. The earlier finest from Raspberry Pi Pico-class microcontrollers was 720p, which an RP2040 may ship. The 2350 is quicker and has quicker peripherals, however even then, to achieve this decision he needed to overclock it to 372 MHz. For all of the spectacular achievement, there’s nonetheless a limitation. Lacking house for a framebuffer, he generates scanline by scanline, a method we affiliate extra with 8-bit computer systems from the Nineteen Eighties.

The 1080p video code is a part of a package deal referred to as TVtop, a board sport through which the sport board is displayed on the TV and whose gamers work together from their telephones through Wi-Fi. For that purpose, there’s an ESP32 within the undertaking too, although it has nothing to do with the video hack.

Now that an RP2350 has been proven to generate 1080p, we sit up for seeing others constructing upon this achievement when it comes to what video may be delivered. If you do one thing, be sure to let us know.

Meanwhile, Aaron tells us he was impressed by this Hackaday story, which asked if it was possible.

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