hillexedThe local electronics store had a wireless rainbow internet controllable 10 feet of LEDs product on sale for $15. I'm going to buy one and maybe I can detach the LED strip and replace the controller with something I can program
Update: my plans to put an #ESP32 in there were foiled by... it already having an ESP8685 (an ESP32 variant) in there! But after a few hours of poking at it with esptool, I keep getting the error "Wrong boot mode detected (0x01)." 0x01 means the pins should be in the right configuration to let me reprogram it, but I suspect the manufacturer set an internal fuse to disable reprogramming it. Shame.
Let me go ahead and replace this with an ESP32 chip I can control...
Looks like there are only two pins that are important: an input to the button on the reverse side and an output to the LEDs. There are other pins broken out to a programming header, but I don't care about wiring them up because the seeed xiao has an USB port for programming already.
