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WKHarmon / led-sectional

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More of a question than an issue #21

Open dandspach opened 1 year ago

dandspach commented 1 year ago

More of a question than an issue. Suppose one wanted to use a Wemos D1 Mini, instead of the ESP8266. How difficult would it be to change the code referencing the ESP to allow for use of a Wemos D1? The Wemos D1 has a 5v output which, is better for driving more leds.

I have been running a METAR map on a Raspberry PI since Covid lockdowns and like the simplicity of this code. Using this would free up my PI for another project.

Thanks, very cool project.

WKHarmon commented 1 year ago

Hola! I designed the entire project for a Wemos D1 Mini, so it should work out of the box just fine. (The Wemos uses an ESP8266 as its microcontroller.) But all of the logic pins on the Wemos are 3.3v, not 5v. I’ve found that usually LED strands will accept that 3.3v logic just fine so it may not be necessary to add the level shifting ICs to get it to 5v, but your mileage may vary.