Has anyone used the INK1003 led strips? Was looking at a listing in Ray Wu’s store that takes 5V and 12V power supplies. Like the look of an easier power supply at 12V. They’re claimed to be WS2801 compatible and still require 3.3 - 5v data signal. I plan on connecting 5m to a SparkCore. Anyone tried these as well? Like Teensy 3.1 only with WiFi on board. Pro’s and Con’s?
Unfortunately, the SparkCore is not like a teensy 3.1 - the teensy 3.1 is using Freescale arm chips while the SparkCore is an STM32F103 from ST. While the instruction sets are the same, the mechanisms for accessing the SPI and GPIO subsystems tend to be wildly different, so I’d need to spend some time with their datasheet and implement all the low level pieces that the library uses to make it happy/work.
Also - the INK1003’s are more likely WS2811/WS2812 compatible (from looking at the datasheet) - the INK1003’s correspond to the WS2811 and the INK1002’s to the WS2812 (but not the WS2812B’s, which are only 4 pins for the led, instead of the INK1002’s 6, which looks more like the WS2812).
Adding to @Daniel_Garcia comments: Ray Wu’s store lists the INK1003 as compatible with the WS2811 controller. Look under Product Description and then find LED resource: in the following link: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/5m-DC12V-INK1003-led-pixel-srip-IP68-30pcs-1002led-5050-RGB-with-bulit-in-INK1003-IC/1546255452.html
You can find the datasheet for INK1003 at http://www.gree-leds.com