Hobbyist runs Pac-Man with ESP32 on a wall-sized screen of 123×48 LEDs

A tweaker shows on Twitter how he plays Pac-Man on a large screen, made up of LED strips and controlled by an ESP32 soc. The hobbyist still has some work to do on the software.

The Frenchman Yves Bazin demonstrates in a short video the preliminary result of his work to run Pac-Man on an ESP32 module and ws2812b LED strips. He made a wall-filling screen with the LEDs. When playing, he uses an NES controller. Pac-Man isn’t fully working yet; Pac-Man can’t catch the ghosts yet and vice versa either.

Bazin previously showed that he can control 20,000 LEDs at 130fps with the ESP32. For his Pac-Man project, he drives sixteen ws2812b strips with just six pins from the ESP32 at 90fps. It is based on work from Bitluni’s Lab. He has released the driver for virtual pins for parallel output via the ESP32 on GitHub.