#PIXELSTICK IMAGES 8 BIT SERIAL#

Large displays will take more power than can be supplied by a computer, so you may have to feed 5V into the provided pins. You mount the sticks next to each other and then daisy chain them together using Grove connectors. Since the stick is symmetrical, building larger displays with the 8 Pixel Stick is simple. The more important feature of this choice is that the board is symmetrical in every direction so they can be evenly stacked to create larger displays.īuilding Larger Displays from the 8 Pixel Stick No soldering required!Īfter talking with customers, it was decided that the stick should have a power of 2 number of pixels and 8 was a good compromise. To chain thee stick you connect the output of one stick to the input of another stick and then so on. They can be driven by a GPIO line, but the timing is tricky so we have suppled the libraries below to get you going.Įach stick is carefully sized so you can build evenly spaced larger displays out of these sticks.Įach 8 Pixel stick has two Grove connectors. All four LEDs (RGBW) are controllable with an 8 bit value, giving a total of 32 bits per pixel.

#PIXELSTICK IMAGES 8 BIT SERIAL#

Each Stick has ~18mA constant current drive so the color will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, and requires near 5V.Įach Pixel is controlled by a daisy-chained serial bit. The SK6812s are each individually addressable as the driver chip is located inside the LED.

This is a small chainable board with eight 5050 SK6812RGBW RGBW LEDs. This is our 8 Pixel Programmable RGBW Strip.

8 Pixel RGBW Chainable Stick with Grove Connectors

Pixelstick images 8 bit