DiffFinally bought me an #arduino #uno #yesterday. #Now I just need to #wait 3-4 #weeks for it to #arrive. Hoping to use it to drive some #WS2812B LEDs after outgrowing my #BlinkStick and hoping I'm not #completely out of my #depth with this.
noelle.exe@Diff Did you make anything interesting with your BlinkStick? Looks like a fun piece of hardware
@nleigh Mostly just music visualizers and mood lighting that I uploaded here: https://gitgud.io/diff-blinkstick/
There is one project I had fun with, haven't uploaded it yet because it's still very unfinished and crash-happy, it was inspired by 0x40 Hues and controlled by a Steam Controller. You feed the script a config file with song and tempo info, and you "play" the song with the controller. The script translates the button presses into sheet music that can be played back on the LEDs later hands-free.
@Diff oooh I like some of those lighting concepts in the toys repo. I'm having similar ideas for the LEDs on the Circuit Playground I'll be getting tomorrow. 10 super bright RGB LEDs should be good for something
@nleigh Yeah that looks like a fun little thing to play around with. So is it basically a kind of Arduino with all kinds of gadgets and sensors built in?
@Diff Yep, enough to dip my toes in and see if it's something to explore further without having to invest a ton of money or labor.
@nleigh Yeah, that price isn't bad at all. There's just way too many cool things to try in this world lol. And with that much stuff crammed in there there's just a metric butt ton of different ways you can take it.