simap

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   by simap 8y ago

   Hi, Pixelblaze guy here :) I totally get where you are coming from. It would be nice if you could drop this on any old board and be up and running. Hopefully I can share some of my perspective. Pixelblaze is a commercial venture for me, and
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   by simap 8y ago

   It's something I've considered. I've released many of the components as well as the entire expansion board project https://github.com/simap/pixelblaze_sensor_board And the network sync and control app
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   by simap 8y ago

   Yep, the trick here is that Pixelblaze doesn't store or stream pixel data, the patterns are small fast programs that generate pixel data on the fly. One benefit of this approach is that Wifi can drop or be unreliable without impacting
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   by simap 8y ago

   Author of Pixelblaze here :) FastLED is an awesome LED driver library with colorspace and fast math functions. I highly recommend it. Pixelblaze is that plus a web interface, compiler, IDE, and pattern library all over WiFi. You can reprogr
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   by simap 8y ago

   Thanks! I'd love bring these together in some way. With the sequencer in https://github.com/sparkled/sparkled and the network sync stuff in https://github.com/simap/Firestorm we could have a
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   by simap 8y ago

   If you want to get a feel for what you can make, you can browse published patterns here: https://electromage.com/patterns/ I was interviewed by embedded.fm about Pixelblaze and some other projects https://w
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   by simap 8y ago

   https://github.com/simap/Firestorm It's new, I haven't had a chance to update website/videos. Syncs animation timebases and lets you push sticky commands to multiple Pixelblaze on a network.