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General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: dogshome on December 22, 2021, 11:48:13 AM

Title: Christmas lights with Arduino and 172 WS2812 LEDS, Pi Zero 2W
Post by: dogshome on December 22, 2021, 11:48:13 AM

After the success with CarbonBal using Arduino https://hackaday.io/project/27569-carbonbal (https://hackaday.io/project/27569-carbonbal), I knocked up some lights. I have another set using a Pi Zero 2W above the garage door plans for a Pi Pico.

I have to say the Pi Zero is the most user friendly and flexible SBC for little projects like this. It has a desktop, you can debug programs as they run and it's wireless. So it can be told when it should do Christmas lights and when it's just ordinary white lighting.It can also support the Pi security cam. Flashing blue lights might get me into trouble though :-)

Python is more simple for a prehistoric PLC engineer like me as C++ always drives me up the wall.

https://youtu.be/CEwHjbusdcU (https://youtu.be/CEwHjbusdcU)

Title: Re: Christmas lights with Arduino and 172 WS2812 LEDS, Pi Zero 2W
Post by: Justin B. on December 22, 2021, 12:45:23 PM

That looks pretty slick!

Title: Re: Christmas lights with Arduino and 172 WS2812 LEDS, Pi Zero 2W
Post by: skippyc on December 22, 2021, 07:12:16 PM

Looks good.