ESP8266 Controller for WS2812b LED Strips

Material

ESP8266 / ESP12F

Eastern Computer ca-5 FT232RL FTDI Micro USB to Serial Converter

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00QCCPCNK

3.3V Voltage Regulator Step-Down

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01N2UQH5P

Logic Level Converter

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01B3KY6Q4

Development Build

See http://www.xess.com/blog/esp8266-reflash/ for a dev board setup.

Final Build

• Controller module without the ESP board

• Controller module with the ESP board

• Bottom side of the controller module

Deployment

2022-11-27 espbadoben1

Environement

Processor: exp8266 on white board

Arduino Board config:

• esp8266 by ESPj266 Community V 3.0.2
• Boards Manager repo: http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json
• Board: Generic ESP8266 Module
• Port: ESP8266-OTA-83e67f at 192168.1.58

Arduino IDE: 1.8.15

Libraries

• ArduinoJson by Benoit Blanchon V 5.13.5
• FastLED by Daniel Garcia V 3.5.0
• NeoPixelBus by Makuna by Michael C Miller V 2.7.0

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