3D RGB Xmas Tree for Raspberry Pi Reviews

4.8 Rating 128 Reviews

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Jean-michel B

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“Love python programming ? So, let’s go for this Xmas Tree !”

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Posted 5 years ago

“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.”

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Posted 5 years ago

Bernadette E

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“Giving this for Christmas so thank you for getting it to me in good time! Think the recipient will love it!”

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Posted 5 years ago

“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.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“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.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“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”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Very high quality board and great packaging. However children got frustrated fast by the lack of code samples.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Just loved the idea of having different lights on one of these trees unlike last years model which I still like. If like me and you want the star RGB LED to stay the same then it's 'pixel[3]'.”

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Posted 5 years ago