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more details on existing commercially available adapters
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marcmerlin authored Jan 3, 2025
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As another option you can buy it from these locations not affiliated with this project.
They are given to help you locate premade boards but no guarantees are given or implied:
* https://www.electrodragon.com/product/rgb-matrix-panel-drive-board-raspberry-pi/
($3/board, but fairly long and/or expensive shipping from HKG)
* The new HD board with angled connectors, is here: https://www.electrodragon.com/product/rgb-matrix-panel-drive-board-for-raspberry-pi-v2/ << **this is the recommended board for most users today**
($3/board, but fairly long and/or expensive shipping from HKG). The old board includes
support for an optional RTC (real time clock) which had to be disabled for most users
who wanted 3 channels instead of an RTC.
* The new HD board with angled connectors (thinner footprint), is here: https://www.electrodragon.com/product/rgb-matrix-panel-drive-board-for-raspberry-pi-v2/ << **this is the recommended board for most users today**
![RGB-Matrix-Panel-Drive-Board-For-Raspberry-Pi-V2-02-400x400](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/713e2414-04f9-4fc3-86a2-cb576e29e057)

* The [Passive-RPi1](./passive-rpi1) adapter board is to connect one panel to
Raspberry Pi 1 with 26 GPIO pins.

* For completeness, Adafruit has a single channel active board here:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3211 although it is ultimately inferior to the
electrodragon board, but it does ship quicker if you're in the US (note that you will
need special compile option or command line argument since it uses non standard wiring)

![Three Panels connected][three-panels]

[three-panels]: ../img/three-parallel-panels-soic.jpg

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