Really nice effect! Almost looks like something that contains nuclear energy.
I wonder if there’s a DIY guide on how to do this, because its amazing!
that looks amazing
This is gorgeous. Sorry for the amateur questions to follow: Is it possible to use ws2812b led’s with this? And is there a way to make it sound reactive with an electret mic and an esgeq7 board?
@James_Reegan answer to all questions is yes. However on the ESP8266 based boards there is only one analog in, so it will be mono
Thank you for your response. Is there a lot I would have to change to make it work with the WS leds? And unless I’m confused, it would be mono anyways if my audio source would be coming from a microphone. I’m trying to design a Daft Punk Thomas Banghalter Helmet LED matrix visor and I feel like this would be fantastic instead of the normal boring animations I’ve seen incorporated. I also have a teensy 3.2 if it would help, I’m in over my head trying to learn all this.
@James_Reegan to change to the WS LEDs is to delete the #defineCLK_PIN and change it in FastLED.addLeds.
BUT you need another board, eg. Adafruit Feather Huzzah (Teensy has no WiFi)
Take your time to go through all the tutorials how to use an ESP8266 based board instead of the Teensy, get aquainted with the MSGEQ7, and then move forward with the matrix visor…
Thank you very much for your response. For ESP I have an Amica NodeMCU dev board and as of now, the only msgeq7 I have is connected to a sound analyzer board by DFrobot@Juergen_Bruegl
so, you are good to go.
I implemented this code into my own Witty cloud driving my 16x16 matrix of 2812b’s .
Looks great! Thanks!!
I’m going to try to learn how to layer in effects like some of the awesome smartmatrix classes.
I don’t really know how to yet but im gonna try.
I’d also like to add ntp to this array and maybe have a clock show up every now and again…but that’s probably just a dream right?..
Hi Jon, I AM interested in adding functionality to my wall of APA102s,
especially some sound reactive functions with the MSGEQ7. I haven’t heard
of smartmatrix, would that help with this goal? There are several projects
on instructables where people used an esp8266 to make ntp clocks . That’s
where I would start. Let me know if you get the smartmatrix running on your
16x16!
I was most interested in porting some of the non smartmatrix specific effects that are used in the aurora project.
Jason Coon created an amazing suite and I’m dizzy from watching it.
I don’t have the experience or coding background to piece this stuff together yet… but I’m always learning. I know they run this particular suite on a teensy3.1 but I wonder how many of the patterns would work on the ESP in our specific implementation…
I’m not sure if it’s a simple hack and paste as additional functions but here is the repo where the aurora package lives.
NTP is the easy part… the hard part is to figure out how to get it onto the matrix with the rest of the madness.
Stefan, Mark, Daniel, Jason… So many amazing coders… I’m honored to be in the same community as you all and blessed to be able to enjoy your work.
I was able to get the Caleidoscope function working with it as well as the addGlitter, which might not serve any purpose… I need to learn how to use classes. but I see there are several dependencies that the classed animations require before they’ll fire… anyway… here is my contribution for now…it’s not much but it works. http://pastebin.com/TxpVVdwi