Bridging Python and C++ in LED Matrices

When it comes to LED matrices, I’m sort of famous for not actually having a lab setup (see: posts tagged with RGBMatrixEmulator and RGBMatrixEmulator itself ) and prefer to emulate in software. However, this week, I got to play with a real Raspberry Pi again, and it wasn’t just the usual “flash an SD card, download some software, push some pixels”. I got to dig into the guts of Python, Cython, and…