Electronics Night 12th Jan 2017

#1

I’m looking to be there tonight fro about 7:30pm

Will bring the normal toys, any special requests for tonight ?

Courty

#2

Could you bring the addressable LED strip, please?

#3

Daniel are you there tonight?

#4

will do ! its in the box…

I’ve got some addressable single leds too if you want to play with those as well ?

Courty

#5

Planning on being there albeit dripping wet!

#6

Addressable singles!? You are pulling my leg Mr Court!

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#7

ok same. Gonna ask you a question will direct message you. Cheers

#8

Nope… you can daisy chain them as you want that way !

Courty

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#9

Ok. Nice one. I’ll give it a go snow allowing!

#10

is there snow?!

#11

its just started snowing here (Bromley, Kent) … will keep an eye on it !

Courty

#12

there’s presumably some form of ‘thing of the internet’ that could do that :wink:

#13

https://thingspeak.com/channels/32142

Rebooted the home weather station this morning just so I could gather the data of the snow arriving.

Temp and Pressure dropping, classic signs…

Would you have expected anything less ? :smile:

Courty

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#14

There is www.raintoday.co.uk which has weather radar showing precipitation.

#15

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… thanks @Courty for bringing the LED strip. It’s running (will return next Thursday!) on @StudioNelle 's sign prototype :

Using the LedStripRainbow pololu-led-strip-arduino library example:

Using the LedStripXmas pololu-led-strip-arduino library example:

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@joeatkin2 the datasheet you requested and the product page to boot.

This is for the green board. The red one I believe follows the same pinout.

@StudioNelle I managed to bake the sourdough bread in time for communal breakfast!

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#16

Great work… when I left at ~11:30, that was a piece of wood and an LED strip laying on the bench !! looks great.

Love that library for the LED’s but if you want more animation styles and a bit more control, look for FastLED.h


BIt more complex to work but uses colour pallets and fast memory swaps to do all sorts of tricks.

Courty

P.S. the Sour bread looks good !

#17

Thanks! Notes to self for next Thursday:

  1. Try FastLED library
  2. Bring loaf of homemade sourdough bread
  3. Bring lump of cheese
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