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Maniacal Labs

479 orders since Nov 11, 2013

Apex, NC, United States of America

Ships from United States of America.

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Product: (4.80)

Documentation: (4.13)

Shipping: (4.53)

Communication: (4.47)

All Reviews

James | Nov. 11, 2020

Great board

For Platypus 2-Axis Laser/Servo Controller

The Platypus board works so well that I bought 2 more. Easy setup, runs quiet, supports Trinamic drivers. Supports servo and laser. All I could ask for.

Zachary | Aug. 26, 2020

Awesome

For PiPixel - Raspberry Pi LED Strip HAT

Great board; worked like a charm for me! Using a couple of these to power RGB strips on some 3D printers. Controlling the strips via OctoPrint. Very happy with this product and will be ordering more!

Richard | Feb. 24, 2020

Both units worked first time and were enjoyable to build

For Super 7 Seg Kit

I purchased two of these displays for a office counter which are being driven by a tiny ARM machine polling a webservice for data. The soldering was easy, and the components high quality and the finished build looks great. The shipping was as expected from over the Atlantic, but the package was well padded and suffered no damage. I'll probably be buying more of these units in the future.

William | Jan. 20, 2020

Simple and gets the job done

For PiPixel - Raspberry Pi LED Strip HAT

Worked well for my intended purpose (controlling a 5V LED strip from the pi). One improvement would be to include a jumper from input power to a 5V pin on the pi.

Christopher | April 10, 2019

Awesome, please keep making them

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

I've used all-pixels and the bibliopixel library in at least 5 projects now. It's really is like a video card for addressable LEDs. Please keep selling these!

Andy | Nov. 16, 2018

It soldered right up and did the thing!

For USB Switch Buddy Kit

Found this handy for preventing a Smoothieboard from being powered over USB. Off means off! Used heat shrink tubing for a case. It would be cool to have a real enclosure as well as a version that goes on the other end of the USB cable.

Samuel | July 6, 2018

Good

For PiPixel - Raspberry Pi LED Strip HAT

It works just like you'd expect. I typically build the same thing for my projects, so this saves me time.
I would appreciate the option to power the RPi using the 5V input, though. I just added another wire to supply the 5V port on the RPi.

Adam | March 22, 2018

Works great!

For PiPixel - Raspberry Pi LED Strip HAT

The video did a great job explaining how to put everything together. It was my second time soldering anything and I was able to get it up and running very quickly. Being the same form factor as the pi 0 makes it very easy to install into your projects.

Noah | Feb. 11, 2018

Allpixel is awesome.

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

This is just what I was looking for for running an RGB led lighting setup in our game room. The hardware works wonderfully, the bibliopixel library is great and being actively developed. I even had one of the developers turn around a feature request for the library in less than a day.

Christopher | Nov. 27, 2017

I had very good experence

For Super 7 Seg Kit

I bought the 7 segment kit for a small display of prime numbers. The kit has well laid out documentation and Maniacal Labs responded quickly with the couple of questions I had. I was able to set up the bulk my project before the kit arrived and finish it shortly after assembling the kit.

Demian | Sept. 27, 2017

Works as expected

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

Only tried with 100 LED's, but that works as expected. Could not get it to work with my USB-C port on my macbook using an USB-C to USB adapter.
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Response from Maniacal Labs | Sept. 27, 2017
Demian,

We're always here to help if you need a hand getting it working with your hardware. We've not heard of any issues with USB-C adapters but we of course can't try every possible hardware. If you'd like to dig into it further, please send us a message on the Maniacal Labs User Group (http://forum.maniacallabs.com) and we'll work through the issue with you.

-Adam

Terry | Dec. 7, 2016

close but but no cigar

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

The product has no printed documentation, which is unsatisfactory. The online documentation is disjointed & terse.

The supporting software, PixelWeb & Bibliopixel, is installed in a non standard way. It should be a dmg/pkg on Mac OSX. Should be a .deb under Debian. Using 'pip' is no good enough.
The supporting software, Bibliopixel & Pixelweb, have no printed documentation. No paper users manual. YouTube videos are not good enough. Really. Need paper user manuals.

There is no contact email addresses. You are left communicating with them on the forums.

The Allpixel is a lot of hype with no substance. I purchased 4 of them & probably won't find a use for them. They will stay in their drawer in my electronic kit cabinet.
Will stick with Arduino boards and the Arduino IDE.

Thomas | Nov. 12, 2016

Great for driving pixels

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

Bought it for the pixel drive output and simple usb interface. Ignore the python software available for it and craft some C, better off for it.

Kenneth | April 27, 2016

Perfect solution for driving LEDs

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

I'm running a Pi 2 connected to the AllPixel board driving a set of 300 WS2812B LEDs to create light patterns to music. This uses the lightshowpi code with modifications for bibliopixel.
Documentation was fairly complete for coding, but other technical questions were found in the forum.
Shipping was completed within a week.
I had no issues getting it running. I have some basic soldering skills, so that part was not difficult for me, and is not particularly involved.
It is possible to drive updates to the board faster than it can handle, at least according to my testing, but it does extremely fast refresh rates.
I was so pleased with it that I created a video explaining what I did.

Tom | Feb. 8, 2016

Best controller for strip LEDs that I've tried.

For AllPixelMini Universal LED Controller

Well, I love it. It lets you connect strips of RGB LEDs to any processor through USB and control them through Python, and it really does what it says on the tin. Programming them is very easy - I wrote something exciting and fun in a short day, and you can see it here. https://github.com/rec/led

So far no issues, arrived dead fast, and Adam has been very polite and responsive to my no doubt overly spammy questions.

Disclaimer: I knew Adam somewhat from discussing LED strips on the internet before he made these.
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