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A project log for Cypress PSOC 4 + ESP8266 WS2812 RGB XMAS Lights

802.11 WIFI enabled RGB LED Strips, using the ESP8266 and $4 Psoc 4 dev board.

charliexcharliex 12/27/2014 at 02:091 Comment

just like Christmas music, more than once is too often. testing at 921600 kbaud, strips are ordered and acting as one giant contigous strip now.

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Ben Delarre wrote 12/29/2014 at 20:56 point

Looking much more stable and smoother now Charlie, nice work. Did you change anything to improve it from when we came over before Christmas?

I made some progress on doing something similar with the Teensy 3.1 for the FLED. Got it working with a single strip and buffering 10 frames ahead, was working well. Sadly I didn't take into account just how much data we're talking about when we scale up to the full 32x54 pixels. 1728 pixels = 5184 bytes per frame = 155520 bytes per second = 1244160 baud! So I guess that's not going to work with a single chip. Considering running two, at 921600 but I'm not sure how well that'll work. More testing to be done.

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