Bruno Portaluri
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Web-Controlled LED Animations with Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Set up your Arduino and Raspberry Pi to control lighting and animation on an RGB LED strip from your smartphone or PC.

IntermediateFull instructions provided1 hour37,583

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
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Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
Arduino Nano can be used as well. Arduino Mega may be needed to drive more LED pixels.
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NeoPixel strip
NeoPixel strip
Any WS8212 LED strip can be used.
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Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

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Schematics

Basic Arduino wiring

Basic Arduino an Raspberry PI wiring

Advanced Arduino wiring

Code

AlaWeb

AlaWeb is the tini web server written in Python and Flask to control the animations from a web browser.

ALA

Arduino Light Animation (ALA) is a library for Arduino boards to simplify the development of light animations using LEDs and LED strips. Visit this page for more details: http://yaab-arduino.blogspot.it/p/ala.html

Credits

Bruno Portaluri

Bruno Portaluri

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