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A collection of 15 posts

NeoPixel Beautification Experiment

NeoPixel Beautification Experiment

Turn a boring make up light bar into a NeoPixel powered flashing fun fest with just a little code and some soldering.

Friday Fun - Late Edition : Tiny Neopixels

Friday Fun - Late Edition : Tiny Neopixels

Super tiny neopixel LEDs from Aliexpress, but are they any good? I took the hit for you!

Saturday Snippet: Setup a local domain name

Saturday Snippet: Setup a local domain name

Create a hostname, a local URL for a device on your network!

Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019!

Christmas Neopixel Hack 2019!

Turn a boring Poundland / Dollarstore Christmas star into an IoT colour changing star! All we need is a little time and some code!

Friday Fun - SMS Controlled Neopixels

Friday Fun - SMS Controlled Neopixels

SMS is the most available method of communication, it works across the world on every level of network. So why don't we use it to control some Neopixels connected to a Raspberry Pi? Using Node-RED and Nexmo we can do it!!

Friday Fun: MicroPython Weather Station

Friday Fun: MicroPython Weather Station

Build a neopixel powered weather station and get your weather data in style!

Friday Fun - Neopixel Cinema Sign

Friday Fun - Neopixel Cinema Sign

Using a cheap micro controller and some NeoPixel LEDs we can make our own rainbow animated cinema sign!

Tooling Tuesday - Bright Lights!

Tooling Tuesday - Bright Lights!

Fancy decorating your home / Christmas tree / self with neopixel fairy lights? For less than £10? Read on!

Friday Fun - Neopixel Camera Light

Friday Fun - Neopixel Camera Light

Create colourful and artistically lit photos with < £10 of equipment and a little code.

Traditional Christmas Neopixel Project 2017 Node-RED Edition!

Traditional Christmas Neopixel Project 2017 Node-RED Edition!

Get a coffee, put your feet up as this is a long one! A short time ago...in a street not so far away.... For 2016 I decorated our window with lots of neopixels Neopixel Christmas lights! pic.twitter.com/Rdyx47I8HI — biglesp (@biglesp) December 10, 2016 But for 2017 I

Friday Fun: Radio Controlled micro:bit Pumpkin 🎃

Friday Fun: Radio Controlled micro:bit Pumpkin 🎃

It's nearly Halloween! The night when creatures of pure evil roam the land, seeking their next victim! No brains were harmed...or found during the creation of this photo So... How can we scare them away? There are lots of evil spirits in this picture, can you find

Have Yourself A WS2812B Christmas

Have Yourself A WS2812B Christmas

I have an addiction to WS2812B "Neopixels", those super bright multi colour LEDs that work with almost every micro controller / computer. I recently purchased some from eBay to see if they were any good. I purchased a two 16 pixel rings. And a 24 pixel ring for less

I'm dreaming of a pair of Ray Bans... Neopixel Christmas Lights Special

I'm dreaming of a pair of Ray Bans... Neopixel Christmas Lights Special

WS2812B, commonly known as Neopixels are super bright individually controllable LEDs that come in many shapes and sizes. Neopixel Christmas lights! pic.twitter.com/Rdyx47I8HI — biglesp (@biglesp) December 10, 2016 I have neopixel rings in various sizes, 1/2/5 metre lengths, individual pixels and even a face made of

Johnny 5 is alive!

Johnny 5 is alive!

It's no secret that I love robots, and when Liz Smart, Code Club Coordinator for the North West asked me along to the Big Bang Fair North West along with some robots...I jumped at the chance! So here is Johnny 5, a Pi Zero robot controlled using

Hacking Apple A1048 Keyboard

Confession - I love early 2000s Apple design asthetics. So when I had the chance to own an A1048 mechanical keyboard...I jumped at the chance. The keyboard itself was a little unloved, being left in a storage rooms for years. So I took it home and photographed it as