RainbowSnake

LED Server with One-button interface, device-to-device mesh using AP-AP networks, and mobile phone sensor bridge.

Quickstart

• See config.h for pin settings and board configurations.
• Connect APA102 as specified in config.h.
• Install data folder using ESP8266 FS tool
  • Note that you should be using 3M SPIFFS, the files are bloaty.
• Upload sketch and wait for board to come up.
• Connect to Rainbow Snake AP, server 192.168.4.1.

Notes

The ESP8266 is terrible at serving multiple files so the app is optimized as such with bootstrap and jquery embedded in script.js/style.css. I recommend minifying your javascript, and there's potential to gzip it for even better performance.

Known Issues

• The current configuration for the Feather does not work with FastLed, I blame pin 16.
• The SPA stops transmitting when the screen is turned off.

Hardware

If you are on this repo, find @gguuss, there is hardware for you.

Demos

Changing Node Patterns using 1-Button Interface

Storing Waypoint using phone GPS and presenting distance to waypoint

Resizing the strip size for control of large LED arrays

Roadmap

• Add support for ESP32
  • Dedicate core to drawing vs to networking?
• Add BLE mesh
• Improve web XP
• More patterns

See also

• Scratch