Neopixel Workshop

Learn to display colors on a 8x8 LED matrix

View the presentation slides here

Prerequisites

What we assume you have:

1. A computer
2. Some basic python programming skills (loops, if statements, etc.)
3. An installation of Python 3 (Python 2 may work as well, but it's untested)

Code setup

1. Press the big green "Clone or download" button and download the zip file
2. Extract the zip file on your computer
3. Open neopixel_template.py
4. Run the python script to send commands to the matrix

Hardware setup

Your hardware should already be set up, but if it isn't:

1. The USB cable should be plugged into your computer and the micro-usb port of the chip
2. There should be a wire from the chip's 5V pin to the matrix's +5V pin
3. There should be a wire from the chip's G pin to the matrix's GND pin
4. There should be a wire from the chip's D4 pin to the matrix's DIN pin