Festival of Lights… A 'USB Stick' Sparkle Motion WLED driver ✨💡🔌🌟
To wrap up this year, we're doing 8 days (maybe!) of light-filled designs. We started with the Sparkle Motion Mini
mini Sparkle Motion prototype - a tiny, fully-featured WLED board ✨🔌📏💡🌈
which can drive thousands of shimmering RGB LEDs. Next, we were going through some of our NeoPixel samples today and found some "LED Christmas light kit" with star LEDs, its basically these stars
Attaching NeoPixel strips to your costume can be a struggle as the flexible PCBs can crack when bent too much. So how to add little shooting
with a little USB plug that has IR, a crummy mic, a tactile switch to cycle modes manually, and a tiny microcontroller that turns the LED selections to different patterns - kinda like this:
The idea is cute - but the implementation could be improved with a lil sparkle motion
Coming soon! We're designing a board for using WLED - and we want to make like the bestest board in the wholeworld. Our resident me
! we made a PCB that would fit into the same plastic enclosure but with an ESP32 instead. it's got an IR receiver, ICS-43434 I2S digital microphone
https://www.digikey.com/short/mmv3tthz
gpio 0 button in the 'right' place, 5V 2A fuse, USB-serial converter for uploading/debugging, and two level-shifted outputs. We can probably get the case in quantity or have this be a 'DIY replacement' that folks can use to make their existing setups WLED/xLights friendly.