Waveshare RGB Panel Mounting System

Waveshare RGB Panel Wall Mounting System

Hang your Waveshare RGB matrix panel on the wall in about two minutes, with nothing showing from the front. No supports. SCAD files.

These panels mount on little magnetic risers that screw into the back. Great on a steel surface, not so much use on drywall. This gives those risers something to grab.

Do you have the risers? Waveshare includes a 4-pack of magnetic screws with the GOB versions of these panels. The Standard versions do not — and Waveshare doesn't sell the pack on its own. If you've got a Standard panel, the same part is Adafruit's Mini Magnet Feet for RGB LED Matrices (12 mm diameter, 16.6 mm long, M3 thread, 4 per pack): https://www.adafruit.com/product/4631 — they also turn up on AliExpress as "M3 magnet screws for LED display modules".

Each bracket is a shallow pocket with a retaining lip over it. Hold the panel up, drop it straight down, and all four risers land in their pockets at once. Lift it up and it comes straight back off, which matters when you want to reflash it or move it to another wall.

The part that makes it feel finished: a 12 mm steel washer glued into the pocket floor. The riser's own magnet snaps to it, so the panel is held magnetically AND captured mechanically behind the lip. No rattle, no creep, no frame around your panel, and no bracket peeking out past the edge.

Haven't got washers? A full no-washer set is in the files. Same parts, solid pocket floor, held purely by the lip. Works fine — you just lose the magnetic snap.

What you print

- 2 × brackets for the top corners — these carry the panel

- 2 × pad for the bottom corners — same standoff, so the panel hangs dead parallel

Only the top two do any lifting; the bottom pads just hold it flat to the wall.

Print plate_2brackets_2pads (or plate_nowasher_2brackets_2pads)

There's also a two-nail bracket if you'd rather not put a screw in the wall, and a magnet_pad_ext10 that rescues a lower hole drilled 10 mm too high. Ask me how I know.

Hardware

- 4 × magnetic risers — in the box with a GOB panel, otherwise [Adafruit Mini Magnet Feet](https://www.adafruit.com/product/4631) (M3, 12 mm, 4-pack)
- 4 × M6 flat washer, 12.0 mm OD × 1.6 mm (DIN 125A) — the cheapest part of the build
- 4 × #4 or #6 flat head screw plus drywall anchors
- A drop of superglue for the washers

The no-washer version needs only the screws.

Will it fit my panel?

The stock files are cut for a disc flange of Ø12.0 × 2.6 mm, post of Ø4.7 × 14.4 mm.

Tested on the RGB-Matrix-P2.5-64x32. The same magnetic screws turn up across the family — P2-64x64, P2.5-64x64, P2.5-96x48-F, P3-64x32, P3-64x64, P4-64x32, P4-80x40, P5-64x32 — and the Adafruit feet above are the same 12 mm × ~17 mm part. If yours match those numbers, you're good. If they don't, read on.

Make it fit anything

rgb_panel_riser_bracket.scad is fully parametric. Open it in OpenSCAD, hit Window → Customizer, and change the numbers at the top: disc_d, disc_t and post_d for your riser, washer_od / washer_t for your washer, use_washer to drop the magnet entirely, fit_clr if your printer runs tight.

One parameter is worth knowing about: *panel_inset** — how far the riser edge sits in from the panel's top and side edge. On the Waveshare panel I have, that was a brutal 1.5 mm, so these brackets are trimmed right to that line and all but disappear behind the panel. If your risers sit further in, raise panel_inset and you get a longer entry channel, which makes hanging the panel even easier.

Printing

Flat on the back face, exactly as the files are oriented. No supports, no brim. Every opening points up. The only overhang in the whole set is a 1.7 mm one-sided ledge at the pocket ceiling, which your slicer's overhang slowdown should handle without complaint.

If using a 0.4 nozzle, use 4 perimeters — the pocket side walls are only 1.8 mm, and you want them solid. 0.2 mm layers, should should probably bump the infill as well (30% infill) but I didn't and it's been fine. Any elephant foot lands on the wall side, where nobody will ever see it.

If the riser won't quite seat, that ledge drooped a touch: bump depth_clr by 0.1. If the pocket is tight, fit_clr is what to tweak.

Heads up

Sized for a light LED panel on one screw per corner. Use proper drywall anchors.