- Name: ArenaController
- Description: Arduino library for communicating with the Reiser Lab Modular LED Display panels.
- Version: 0.2.0
- Panel Version: G4 v1.9
- Release Date: 2025-06-16
- Creation Date: 2023-08-16
- License: GPLv3
- URL: https://github.com/janelia-arduino/ArenaController
- Author: Peter Polidoro
- Email: peter@polidoro.io
- Copyright: 2025 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- References:
- https://reiserlab.github.io/Modular-LED-Display/
- https://github.com/floesche/LED-Display_G4_Hardware_Arena
- https://github.com/leburnett/G4_Display_Tools
- https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy41.html
- https://www.pjrc.com/store/ethernet_kit.html
- https://github.com/QuantumLeaps/qp-arduino
- https://mongoose.ws/
Abstract from https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.02.502550 :
“Visual stimulation of animals in the laboratory is a powerful technique for studying sensory control of complex behaviors.
Since commercial displays are optimized for human vision, we established a novel display system based on custom-built modular LED panels that provides millisecond refresh, precise synchronization, customizable color combinations, and varied display configurations.
This system simplifies challenging experiments.
With variants of this display, we probed the speed limits of motion vision and examined the role of color vision in behavioral experiments with tethered flying Drosophila.
Using 2-photon calcium imaging, we comprehensively mapped the tuning of visual projection neurons across the fly’s field of view.
Finally, using real-time behavior analysis, we developed low-latency interactive virtual environments and found that flying flies can independently control their navigation along two dimensions.
This display system uniquely addresses most technical challenges of small animal vision experiments and is thoroughly documented for replicability.”
A quarter panel is a set of LED pixels arranged in rows and columns.
A panel is a set of quarter panels arranged in rows and columns.
A region is a set of panels arranged in rows and columns with a common communication interface.
An display is a set of regions arranged in rows and columns.
Pixel numbering for each pixel in a quarter panel:
In grayscale mode, each LED can be one of sixteen brightness levels.
In binary mode, each LED can be one of two brightness levels, on or off.
Quarter panel numbering for each quarter panel in a panel plus pixel numbering for select pixels in a panel:
Region numbering for each region in an display:
Panel numbering for each panel in an region:
Panel update order for each panel in an display:
https://github.com/janelia-arduino/ArenaController.git
sudo apt install -y git
mkdir -p ~/tmp && cd ~/tmp && git clone https://github.com/janelia-arduino/ArenaController.githttps://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/core/installation/index.html
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install pip --upgrade
pip install platformio
pio --versionLinux users have to install udev rules for PlatformIO supported boards/devices.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/platformio/platformio-core/develop/platformio/assets/system/99-platformio-udev.rules | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-platformio-udev.rulessudo service udev restartsudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER
sudo usermod -a -G plugdev $USERsudo apt-get purge --auto-remove modemmanagermake teensy-firmwaremake teensy-uploadmake monitor