Hardware ingredient

• Fadecandy
• Raspberry Pi 3
• WS2812B LED String 64 pixel (1m 144 px)
• mirco USE Cable
• 5V USB Battery

Setup your Pi

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

country=GB
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
 ssid="<YOUR WFI SSID>"
 psk="<YOUR WIFI PASSWORD>"
}

sudo raspi-config
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/fishkingsin/firefly.git

setup fadecandy:

git clone git://github.com/scanlime/fadecandy
cd fadecandy/server
make submodules
make 

sudo mv fcserver /usr/local/bin

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

#paste /usr/local/bin/fcserver /usr/local/bin/fcserver.json >/var/log/fcserver.log 2>&1 &


sudo nano /usr/local/bin/fcserver.json

Copy and paste the following block into the new file:

update serial to your fadecandy serial number

{
	"listen": [null, 7890],
	"verbose": true,

	"color": {
		"gamma": 2.5,
		"whitepoint": [0.7, 0.7, 0.7]
	},

	"devices": [
		{
			"type": "fadecandy",
			"serial": "<you fadecandy serail number>",
			"map": [
				[ 0,    0,   0, 60 ],
				[ 0,   60,  64, 60 ],
				[ 0,  120, 128, 60 ],
				[ 0,  180, 192, 60 ],
				[ 0,  240, 256, 60 ],
				[ 0,  300, 320, 60 ],
				[ 0,  360, 384, 60 ],
				[ 0,  420, 448, 60 ]
			]
		}
	] 
}

wiring

Reference

https://learn.adafruit.com/1500-neopixel-led-curtain-with-raspberry-pi-fadecandy/fadecandy-wiring-harness

Qlab

OSC setup

in my case , I was controlling 2 RPi

LED1 -> 10.0.2.6:7110

LED2 -> 10.0.2.3:7110

add new OSC cue

Install PIL

#install dependencies
sudo apt-get install python-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev python-pip
sudo pip install pillow 

Install pyOSC

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/7c/e4/6abb118cf110813a7922119ed0d53e5fe51c570296785ec2a39f37606d85/pyOSC-0.3.5b-5294.tar.gz

tar -xvf pyOSC-0.3.5b-5294.tar.gz

cd pyOSC-0.3.5b-5294

sudo python ./setup.py install
 

Run it

cd fireFly/python

python image-pov.py