First of all, thumbs up for all the amazing projects here!
I was on a festival last year and i met this guy with an amazing led top hat he build with Arduino…
We talked about his project and i got more and more interested on building this on my own.
Here’s a videoclip of that hat i found on yt.
I made a board with 10 rows of 42 led strips WS2812B in serie instead of 1 strip as in this video (this for better aligning)
This hooked up to an Arduino Uno and a regulated power supply.
But now… i have no coding skills what so ever, i’m a bit lost in all the tutorials and guides, and before i started this project i had hoped there where programs with easy GUI’s… My bad
I hope some more experienced people here can help me out a bit on how to get started.
This is a pretty heavy duty project with advanced coding and electrical distribution knowledge required.
I recommend that you start out with a more simple project first and slowly work up to this. For instance, start out with a single strip of 42 (or so) LED’s and download/modify the various single strip demos available, such as the ones that come with the FastLED library. Other demos include:
If you download and understand these demos, you’ll be well on your way to getting that hat in order.
Glad you’re comfortable with the wiring part. Yes, coding something like that hat is not a basic project. If you’re not comfortable with coding yet then start with something simple. A small 32 to 60 pixel strip is great for learning. Check out and tweak variables and try modifying little bits of a bunch of demos and examples until you understand the basics. As you get more into the coding and run into questions post your code to http://gist.github.com and share a link to your code.
this guy made a good tutorial on how to build it, and not so much the coding part. I have code from @Jason_Coon below in my YouTube video that should help.
@Tommy_Sciano Which mic was used for the audio? I have a Thomas helmet done with Jason’s code and I would love to add a mic to make it sound reactive.I did that in your list of materials.
