64x32 RGB LED MATRIX not working - please help!

[adam]

Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

I thought I was going to get yet more problems driving 64 x 64 LED Matrices. The Adafruit Matrix Portal M4 is an absolute disaster zone. I have spent months trying to tweak Adafruit Tutorials and failed miserably. I then bought the Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi, hoping for a better experience with Python than with CircuitPython. Every single demo crashes and resets the Pi. Not a power issue, I am running 5 Volt at 23 Amp. Hours later I found a very simple solution, just before I ri…