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Tag Archives: WS2812B
Importing LEDs from China — Battle with customs follow-up
Behold, the stickers of DOOM… If you should find any of these on a shipment to you, prepare for battle!
Posted in Electronics.
Tagged aliexpress, CE, customs, follow-up, import, LED, RGB, RoHS, WS2812B
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HZA — Won the battle, but not the war
I ordered a couple of WS2812B on Aliexpress more than THREE months ago. Boy what trouble that has conjured up! The seller on Aliexpress now probably thinks I’m a crook, because I missed an email that asked me to provide … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics.
Tagged aliexpress, CE, China, customs, HZA, import, RoHS, WS2812B, Zoll
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ISML + WiFi — ESP8266 finally tamed, but…
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Tagged AVR, erratic behaviour, ESP8266, IKEA, ISML, LED, mood light, RAM, RGB, Smatid, usage, WiFi, WS2812B
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Small project #12 ⅔ — IKEA Samtid mood-light BT firmware
A user of the “new” version of the lamp has undertaken the heroic task of writing the Bluetooth code for controlling it! Here’s a sneak-peak:
WS2812B + ATmega168 breakout — a.k.a. RGB LED RING V3
No more software PWM, no more LED driver chips, just intelligent LED pixels. These things come with integrated controllers/drivers and support 24bit colors (8bit per R,G,B). This makes projects smaller and is much easier on the microcontroller, no more need … Continue reading