“Would like tecnical documentation for hardware and more documentation on driver, and of course more software for controlling tree, but I belive it will come. Impressive gadget if You want instant response on Your Python programming skills.”
“This board is much brighter that the older one. The colour adds many possibilities but we need a more advanced python code than the provided one because the software lacks of variety of colour patterns to choose from. I am sure someone will share a more advanced python code for this board.”
“Colour adds another magnitude of play value. So, though it's probably a bit sad, but I am really enjoying this little Christmas Tree. Custom instructions and more code samples would make it better still. Probably only take you folks an hour or so to do. Or run a competition for best in Scratch and best in python for those under, say, fourteen.”
“This has 25 APA102 LEDs which run using SPI, so there are only 4 pins used: 5v, ground, clock and data. I decided not to use a raspiberry pi for this and instead hooked it up to a nodemcu (esp8266) which has integrated wifi. I connected pin 39 from the tree to ground on the nodemcu, pin 2 to 5v, pin 31 to D4 and pin 23 to D3. No external power or level shifter is required.
I then flashed the excellent WLED by Aircookie - https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED (make sure you grab the APA102 variant from the available bin files)which has tons of effects and features all easily controlled by the android/ios apps, web page or home assistant etc. You can even sync the effects and colours with other sets of completely independent lights over wifi!
The end result is fantastic - https://www.dropbox.com/s/33y8pq1oxk8kfd8/20191214_201640.jpg?dl=0”
