I think this will be really cool once it's done and am now thinking of other things to try with it (possibly some way to utilize the buttons I designed into the case and some other stuff), but first things first, gotta finish printing it. When done I expect to use upto 10 panels (which coincidentally will utilize an entire strip of 300 LED's since each box uses 30). Since it was not covered in either the public or private code walkthrough videos from Nerdforge, I will do a write up of how to get the Blynk app to work with his software, when I am confident everything is working (I want to test it with several more boxes yet).
Well I should say that I tested two strips of LEDs for the panels (and one was in the panel) so I think that qualifies. Everything works pretty well, and the Blynk interface is very responsive too! The only issues I ran into was a driver problem for the CH2102 Slilcon Labs USB driver (just had to install it), and I also found that the Blue and Green colors were reversed so I made a small change to Hexalights.ino to swap the colors (see the pics). I suspect that the reverse colors may be due to some issue with my particular LED strip since I looked over things and nothing else seems amiss between the Blynk app config and the code. I think this will be really cool once it's done and am now thinking of other things to try with it (possibly some way to utilize the buttons I designed into the case and some other stuff), but first things first, gotta finish printing it. When done I expect to use upto 10 panels (which coincidentally will utilize an entire strip of 300 LED's since each box uses 30). Since it was not covered in either the public or private code walkthrough videos from Nerdforge, I will do a write up of how to get the Blynk app to work with his software, when I am confident everything is working (I want to test it with several more boxes yet).
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