The future has landed in small pixelcontroller for RGB LEDs
ESPArtStick line are a small pixel controller designed to control a single addressable LED pixels/neopixels using a special shield and for the Wemos D1 mini. Works with FPP and xLights.
In the last few years, individually addressable RGB lights have been getting cheaper and cheaper. These lights contain a small controller chip alongside the RGB LED which makes it show a certain color. The controller chips have a serial data input and output, and can be daisy-chained together. In this way you can control many different lights using just a few control wires (rather than needing wires going to each individual light).If you’ve played around with controlling LED pixels, you know that getting the infrastructure set up to control your pixels can be quite time-consuming.
FPP license not required for this product.
NOTE: If you display is not showing, FPP default might be set to none. To change uses FPP Settings -> System -> Status Display -> 128x64 I2C (SSD1306)
The 2 Port PiHat is a cape for the Raspberry Pi designed to drive ws2811 LED pixels. It has 4 local ports (Fused with LED indicators) that can each drive over 800 pixels (with power injection) at 40FPS.
No FPP license is required unless you wish to enable sound from the raspberry pi (Soundblaster does work but audio out jack does not). For audio that requires a FPP license for 2 port.
5 GPIO terminal screw inputs allowing you to add external triggers such as buttons to fire of FPP commands such as next sequence, start, stop, etc.
With a OLED screen and navigation joystick, you can control this PiHat with much greater ease.
This Pihat also has additional GIPO terminal screw pins to allow you to add in custom buttons and configure FPP to do special events when external buttons are pressed.
The 2 local ports provides enough outputs to handle most situations where a small controller is desirable. It’s more than the 2 ports of the various Raspberry Pi controllers, but not as large as the standard more robust pixels controllers that are typically used for pixel dense locations.
The Raspberry Pi can be powered by the same power supply powering the pixels onto the Pihat itself. It will automatically adjust for 5V or 12V power.
Can control 800+ WS2811 pixels per port with fused and buffered outputs at 40 FPS.
NOTE: This will use the license free 2 port version of FPP (without Audio). IF you also wish to output audio, then a FPP license will be required.
Technical: Pin 12 and 35 are used for the Pixel ports 1 and 2.
21,29,31,37 are used for the navigation joystick
11,13,15,16,18 are open for the terminal input connectors on top on the board.
Incorporating LEDs into an electronic project used to be a veritable rat’s nest of wires and custom code. The arrival of dedicated LED driver chips brought welcome relief, offloading grunt work from the micro controller and allowing one to focus on the application. Much simpler, but still not “Christmas light” simple.The ESP Art StickIntegrates Lights in the latest advance in the quest for a simple and affordable full-color LED that is easy to use.
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