I have my grievances with Tidbyt as a whole but I feel lots of people were unaware about the nature of this new version (I did not buy nor do I intend to) The whole point of the display was that it was softer, in this case pixels blend instead of being space in between. I am honestly trying to apply the same technique to my Gen 1. There is a community post about folks trying that out. Surprisingly someone got a good very sharp effect just by using tracing paper Layout customization + Clear acrylic glass - Feature Requests - Tidbyt
The thing here is that it looks like, maybe in the Tidbyt 2 production, the diffusion wasn’t applied that well. Poor quality control as I see, from photo examples on reddit, blurriness vary wildly from user to user. Like with diffusion layer you do and should expect some softness, its the whole point of it. However it does look too blurry. Specially next to example of projects done with Adafruit kits:
- Overview | 32x32 Square Pixel Art Animation Display | Adafruit Learning System the vid on there shows the process of adding a 3d printed matrix and then the diffuser to make it work
- Black LED Diffusion Acrylic Panel - 10.2 x 5.1 [0.1 / 2.6mm thick] : ID 4749 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits example of the sort of diffuser
- Overview | Moon Phase Clock for Adafruit Matrix Portal | Adafruit Learning System sometimes you can actually just go with the diffuser by itself without matrix
PS. Guys, please do read carefully the product descriptions of the things that catch your eye online before buying it. Especially when the thing you are buying is in the 3 digits realm. It is crazy to me that some people thought it was gonna be OLED 8bit level type stuff, when displays like this are soft by design. Or that even thought it was a peelable protector. Although those with clearly faulty units had all the rights to think so (I am not letting them off the hook for the poor Quality Control tho)
This is within the realms of what a typical led display with diffusion looks like:
This unacceptable in my opinion. It is crazy that all of these are the same product but came out of the same factory looking differently.
