WLED is the greatest way to add IoT connectivity to fully addressable LEDs Grids like the GlowBit Matrix 8x8 or NeoPixels Squares. Filled to the brim with customisable light shows, purpose build for grids, it is truly one of the best open-source projects ever conceived ✨🔮 Absolutely No Coding Required! Plus I show how to display custom Pixel Art With a Single Click for ANY Size Matrix!
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To be clear, this guide will be all about controlling any Fully Addressable LED Grid or Matrix, in any size or shape, using any Espressif ESP32 or ESP8266 Development Board. These developer boards are the best way to get WiFi connectivity into any project. Your mobile phone or computer will then be able to tell the LED Nodes exactly what to do wirelessly. All through the local WIFI! This is all possible by WLED, one of the best open-source projects ever conceived.
Nothing beats bright shiny colourful lights and adding an extra dimension only makes them better. This guide demonstrates the fastest and most customizable way to have WS2812B grids of fully addressable LED Nodes come alive. Exactly how you want. Even better, because as we are using WLED, there will be absolutely No Code Required. GlowBit Matrix 8x8 are fully addressable LED grids literally purpose-built for this task, built in-house, Australian-made, and this guide will use them extensively.
Know that WLED will work even if you built a Square or Rectangle shape from any WS2812B Strips or Any Other Fully Addressable LED Nodes. This guide will also make it clear how to inject extra power into a LED Light system. That way you can feel confident in lightning more than 30 LED Nodes. This guide will demonstrate how to set up WLED on a Single Glowbit Matrix 8X8 (that is 64 unique LED nodes) and provide all the tools to take it to the next level with a 3X3 GlowBit Matrix 8x8 Grid (that is 9 GlowBit Matrix components put together, totaling 576 LED Nodes)! There are even tips to make your system portable and sound reactive (check full article for more). Long Live Pusheen!
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0:00 Intro
0:49 Guide Overview
2:05 What You Need
2:50 Hardware Build
4:10 Software Set Up
4:46 WLED Set Up for 2D Matrix
5:14 First Success!
4:25 Not Getting Light? Do This
4:46 First Success!
5:35 More LEDs More Better
6:04 *Brenton Soldered (Thank You Mate)
6:10 Completed Build
6:22 BIG Success!
6:39 Custom Pixel Art How To
6:47 Whoops I Must've Bumped It
7:07 First Set WLED to Solid Colour
7:27 Click on | pixartmin.html |
7:49 Completed Wizard Settings
8:30 Pixel Art Success!
8:49 Check Out That ART!
6:35 Creating a Custom Light Show
9:01 Make WLED Portable!
9:52 Outro
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