Neopixel Matrix

I had the day off so I decided to hook up the matrix.  I just had the program run thru a test of each led.  Seems to work.  I tried with my buffer chip but it isn't working for some reason. So I am going to use this setup until I can figure it out.  As you can the matrix is running good. Next I will see if I can get it to display messages etc.

Fixed some issues on neopixels

So, I found out that even though things looked like they were working on my neopixels, they really were not.  I made a board, shown here, but it didn't work out the way I wanted.  A lot of the neopixels were going nuts when I told it to go faster.  What I did was I added more resistance to the input of the neopixels.  I have not done it here on this board, but the resistor will need to be replaced to a 1k.  It should work.  The chip I have here is basically a buffer chip.  Last time I tested it out, all the lights turned on and stayed on.  After adding more resistance, it seemed to work.  I am going ot change out the resistor and see how it goes.  Then I can add more lights.  The video down below shows the leds going faster.  It didn't have the issues I was having.

Neopixel test on esp32

Since I got the server/client thing working it was time to start working on the neopixel stuff.  I started out simple.  Then add on to the line.  As you can see on the top left is the power supply for the line and I added a cap on this to knock don't the current rush.  So far its working.  Check it out.

On to Neopixels

I was able successfully get the threading part working on one of the esp32 clients.   Which means prop4 software is kind of done.  Since prop4 is going to be my neopixel client, I needed it to do a light show before I ask it to display how many days until Halloween or other things I might like to display, like tune into Halloween radio 101.3FM.  That type of thing.  While it doing a light show, it will listen for commands from my raspberry pi server.  If it hears the command, it stops the light show and displays how many days until Halloween.  Or asks for you to tune into 101.3FM.  That type of thing.  I know its not pretty right now, and I don't have cool Halloween pics up, but the software has to be done first or I am not going to get it to look cool.

Next, I need to dive into the neopixel program to see if I can make a light show.  The light show will be on a matrix of leds.  I don't know what it will look like, but I am getting there.