Wondering if a board like the one linked below works with FastLED.
I haven’t used this specific brand/board, but I’ve used several different ESP8266 boards and they’ve all worked great so far. I’m using several of these right now: https://www.wemos.cc/product/d1-mini-pro.html
IT works perfect.
Yep this is a NodeMCU Clone, all good
@Leon_Yuhanov I’m trying to drive ~1,500 ws2812b led’s. Do you know if this would have enough ram for that?
It has about 81k of SRAM thats available to you, 1500 leds is 4500Bytes so yeah plenty!
I have some of these boards working very well with fastled.
Just ordered one. Let’s see if I can finally do some nice pattern projects at home…
Any pointers on how to bootstrap the board?
I am getting the following error: static_assert(validpin(), “Invalid pin specified”);
After a bunch of searching around I got to a point where I have a blinky program that compiles and fails to upload to the board, even after following the instructions to debug upload problems. I am constantly getting the following error:
warning: espcomm_sync failed
error: espcomm_open failed
error: espcomm_upload_mem failed
@Jesus_Climent What Speed are you uploading at? Set it to 115200, anything faster(with this particular board) will fail “SOMETIMES” and work “SOMETIMES”
I needed to install the silabs cp2102 driver in order to have access to /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART. It was not easy to find references to that specific bit of information… I have blinky working now. Thanks for your response.
Oh your on Linux as well…hardcore mode! Good to hear you have it working.
Well, Mac, but yeah, I needed the USB drivers for the USB to Serial UART module.
@Jason_Coon I started researching wifi modules out of inspiration from your Xmas tree-v2, which prompted me to get a pair of wemos and one of this HiLetgo boards.
@Jesus_Climent Cool! Can’t wait to see what you build, make sure to share it here! 
@Jason_Coon Most of my projects and code is for Burning Man. I will show what I have once I get the final setup done. The idea of having a web interface on a cheap phone to control the variables is very appealing to me, as so far I have been using visual feedback and only recently started playing with an OLED i2c screen.