Going from the Arduino to ESP32 The animations are essentially large 2D arrays of CRGB data, and even 1 animation of 5 frames was too large for the Arduino UNO (SRAM 2KB) so I switched to the ESP32 C6 Mini (SRAM 512 KB) – plenty of space for some small animations. I used the […]
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Homemade LED Matrix TV Pop Up with ESP32 (Part 1)
In this blog I’m going to explain how I made a ‘pop-up’ TV with a functioning screen showing pixel animations. There is a ‘remote’ controlling the ‘channels’- so when a button is pressed a new animation is presented on the screen. Pop Up Design The design for my pop up went through several iterations. I […]
LED Choker using ATTiny85 and FastLED (Part 2)
Today I finished off my choker! Code There was an effect I wanted to add from Scott Marley’s FastLED effects page, the effect ‘twinkles’ the LEDS using colours from a user defined palette. The palette I used had blue green colours but when I uploaded the code, the LED looked like this: They were flashing […]
LED Choker using ATTiny85 and FastLED (Part 1)
I got a basic grounding in FastLED with this excellent set of tutorials by Scott Marley and knew I wanted to use Fastled in a project so decided to make a choker! Materials Collar from Amazon. To use as the actual choker itself I bought this dog collar – bit weird I know but the […]