Difference between revisions of "Sensor-Color LED Strip"

• General Pin Out is the standard pin out of a Sensor / Trinket connector.
• Sensor / Trinket's Pin Out is this specific Sensor / Trinket's wiring in relation to the General Pin Out.
• SIGNAL-A / SIGNAL-B are signals that could be digital input, digital output, analog input or analog output. Or special signals such as serial communication (SoftwareSerial, IIC (I2C), etc) or other special signals.
• Not Connected refers to the Pin not being used for this particular Sensor / Trinket.
• Read more about the hub module.

Features

• With flexible material which is easy to install on whatever shape of the surface.
• Flexible LED strip with 7 full color LEDs
• Adopts single serial cascade protocol which makes it cascadable
• Only one I/O port can control the RGB color of each LED on the line
• Can achieve RGB 256-grade（1600W）toning, and the scanning frequency is no less than 400Hz/s

Specification

• Sensor voltage
  • 5V working voltage

• Size of the sensor
  • Size of the board: 127mm*11.43mm
  • 1.27mm-spacing 4Pin interface connected with sensorhub

• Function description
  • Adopts WS2812 lampwick
  • 7 full color LED flexible LED strip
  • Adopts single serial cascade protocol, which makes it cascadable
  • Only one I/O port can control the RGB color of each LED on the line.
  • Can achieve RGB 256-grade（1600W）toning, and the scanning frequency is no less than 400Hz/s
  • When the updating speed is 30 frame/s, the cascade number is no less than 1024

• Connection
  • This sensor can be connected to the following interfaces of the core: D2~D13, A0~A7
  • Multiple sensors cascade: connect the (OUT) of the former LED-Strip to the (IN) of the latter LED-Strip.

Document

• Schematic diagram: File:Microduino-Color LED Strip.Zip
• Main chip: File:WS2812 datasheet.pdf
• You can use the sample programs in the following IDE libraries to do experiment on your own: _07_Sensor_LED_WS2812

Development

Program Download

• Download and unzip the program File:Sensor-Color LED Strip Test.zip

Programming

• Follow the Software Getting Started Guide.
• Select the Board, Processor and Port.
• Click [File]->[Open], browse to the project program address, and click "Microduino_Color LED Strip_Test.ino" to open the program.
• After confirming all these items are correct, click "→" to download the program to the development board.

Hardware Setup

• Referring to the following diagram, connect the IN port of Sensor-Color LED Strip to the digital port D6 of Microduino-Sensorhub.

Result

• After download, observe the LED strip.
• LED flashes in red and green successively with the interval of 1s.

Application

• LED full color light source
• LED full color entertaining diversion

Projects

• Bluetooth Lamp
• Rhythm Lamp
• Applause Enthusiasm Detection
• Colorful LED Light

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