NeoPixels / Drivers

The Adafruit Sparkle Motion Mini is part of our series of "Sparkle Motion" boards, that are our attempt to make the best small WLED-friendly smart LED driving board in the whole world. Our resident mermaid, firepixie makes a lot of projects with WLED and she loves it! So how can we make something that will be powerful enough to drive advanced LED projects that need a...

We've been stocking WS2811-n-friends for a long time, enough to see many iterations and versions of the "one-wire-control" addressable LED pixel. We call them NeoPixels, since the part number itself can change quite a bit, but all have the same idea: send color data to lights and they'll change on their own without having to constantly PWM three or four diodes....

NeoPixel LEDs (a.k.a WS2812 / SK6812 family) are a super-easy way to add addressable RGB lighting with only one GPIO. They're ubiquitous on microcontrollers, but some chips or single board computers (SBCs) don't have neopixel support due to the precision timing required to send data. We often get folks asking how to get NeoPixels working on some...

Whenever we're working with 'true analog' LED strips, that have 1-3 channels of RGB or White LEDs, we wish we had already invented to make wiring them easier: controlling these strips takes a bit of wiring since they almost always need 12VDC and driver FETs. Now, we've finally created the Adafruit NeoRGB Stemma board - which will make our lives easier, and maybe even...

Pixelblaze is a Wi-Fi Addressable LED Controller and Custom Pattern Editor, powered by an ESP32 module with 240Mhz dual-core processor for 'blazingly fast' pixel rendering capabilities. This is the Pixelblaze V3 Standard which has additional interface and expansion capabilities. It can interface with hardware and sensors using GPIO, analog, or touch inputs. It has an...

The Pixelblaze Sensor Expansion Board makes it easy to write patterns that use sound, accelerometer/tilt, or light to create reactive patterns. Normalized frequency data, acceleration, and light data are fed directly into your pattern as variables so you can focus on using the data instead of processing it. No libraries needed. A line-in jack and microphone (switches...

Pixelblaze is a Wi-Fi Addressable LED Controller and Custom Pattern Editor, powered by an ESP32 module with 240Mhz dual-core processor for 'blazingly fast' pixel rendering capabilities. This is the Pixelblaze V3 Pico which is the smallest and most powerful LED controller. It's tiny but has the same ESP32 firepower as its larger sibling. Perfect for tiny or wearable...

Coming soon! We're designing a board for using WLED - and we want to make like the bestest board in the whole world. Our resident mermaid, firepixie makes a lot of projects with WLED and she loves it! So how can we make something that will be powerful but not too bulky? Here's some things we're thinking about as the design starts to congeal like cranberry sauce:...

This collaboration was between Adafruit & Micah from Scanlime, Fadecandy, a NeoPixel driver with built in dithering, that can be controlled over USB. For every FadeCandy sold Micah from Scanlime was paid, Micah's work can be supported on Patreon (Adafruit Patreon sponsored from 2017 to 2020). Adafruit emailed Micah multiple times for possible updates or status of...

This adapter board connects the Teensy 3.1 to up to thousands of WS2811/WS2812 (a.k.a NeoPixel) and compatible LEDs using the OctoWS2811 Library. It features a 74HCT245 buffer chip and 100 ohm series matching resistors. A CAT6 Ethernet cable is used to connect this board to the LED strips. A CAT6 cable is designed for very high bandwidth, minimal cross-talk between...