{"id":617,"date":"2015-08-03T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=617"},"modified":"2015-08-03T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T04:09:55","slug":"deck-leds-hm10-interfacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Deck Leds (HM10 interfacing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, \u00a0almost exactly a year ago I started my deck led project based on an AVR, <a href=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?attachment_id=619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-619 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1334-e1438657786186-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1334\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1334-e1438657786186-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1334-e1438657786186-946x1024.jpg 946w, https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1334-e1438657786186.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a>WS2812B Led strips, and a Bluetooth LE Breakout board. \u00a0I&#8217;ve finally completed the project. The LED strips were installed in Oct 2014, but I just completed the wiring today. The project took a few turns, I&#8217;m using an ARM now since I&#8217;m controlling about 1000 LEDs, and the AVR didn&#8217;t quite have the jam. To expedite things I&#8217;m using the teensy 3.1 module. Dave built a &#8220;Big Buck&#8221; regulator to drop the 12v from a car battery to the 5V\/~40A needed by the circuit. \u00a0I&#8217;ve still to install a solar panel and MPPT solar charger, but at least the LEDs light up. In the picture you can see the Teensy at the bottom, it is sitting on top of a board (OctoWS2811) that does the 3 to 5v conversion for running the leds. The output connector is a dual RJ-45. The BLE module is sitting on top of that. \u00a0The Big Buck, has a \u00a0house keeping regulator that always powers the micro. \u00a0The micro controls the main regulator via the green enable wire in the photo. \u00a0This should help conserve battery life, since the leds can draw considerable power even when off.<\/p>\n<p>There is a cheese-ball iphone app to control everything. Here are the LEDs in action. There were a few casualties over the winter, about four LEDs lost one of their channels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-621\" src=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/chase.gif\" alt=\"chase\" width=\"427\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/rain.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-622\" src=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/rain.gif\" alt=\"rain\" width=\"427\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, \u00a0almost exactly a year ago I started my deck led project based on an AVR, WS2812B Led strips, and a Bluetooth LE Breakout board. \u00a0I&#8217;ve finally completed the project. The LED strips were installed in Oct 2014, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}