Wemos WS2816B shield

Name: Wemos WS2816B shield
SKU: 25352
Price: 1.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Very simple WS2816B board, just to see the LED in action

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Very simple WS2816B board, just to see the LED in action

This is a very simple board for a LOLIN/Wemos ESP8266 board. I made it to test the WS2816B led (since it has 16-bits per color, curious to see). You can drive the LED with the FastLED library: use tw…

This is a very simple board for a LOLIN/Wemos ESP8266 board.

I made it to test the WS2816B led (since it has 16-bits per color, curious to see).

You can drive the LED with the FastLED library: use two virtual leds to drive the WS2816B.

So [r, g, b],[r,g,b] becomes [g, G, R, B, r, b], I'm not sure why the bytes are swapped this way. But it does the job for now!
With the capitals I mean: g and G are the first byte and second byte that together represent a 16-bit value.
See the linked example on GitHub.

Improvements:
I should have used a ground plane, but forgot. However, for the simple purposes this isn't a problem.