Looking like another extended hiatus from lonewolf. I hope he's busy working a new job and such, instead of unable to pay for his internet or power bills.
From the looks of it (after reading EVERY post between both threads), there is still no solution to the >3 3216 boards? Interestingly, I came to the conclusion that one or more of my 3216's are bad, when I could only get 2 of them to work. After re-arranging them all, I was finally able to get 3 working together, but the 4th causes all other boards to misbehave. I was just about to order another 4 3216's to hedge my bets, when I finished reading the thread, and discovered the problems with more than 3 boards.
I'm pretty good with my C/C++, but the datasheets from Sure on the boards haven't been very helpful in determining the order in which memory is mapped onto the display (at least not helpful in me understanding it).
Could we maybe bring this discussion back a bit, and take it more on the "theory" side briefly? If I had a better understanding of how the memory maps, I might be able to lend some assistance with the code.
Btw, I'm really interested in evanrich's design 3x-wireless design. Personally, I'd like to have them with WiFi instead of Bluetooth though. I'm looking at putting a few of these around my house (theater, etc), with them polling the home server for information to display, such as time, date, temp, humidity, alarm status, etc. WiFi seems a little more accessible than bluetooth, plus my son would love to "have an [iphone] app for that", which Bluetooth limits.
Lonewolf, at such time as you return, can I make a modest donation to you, in the spirit of all your hard work?
--Kyle