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robertvorthman / neopixel-music

Midi neopixel visualizer
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how to run it #2

Open jorge-teixeira opened 5 years ago

jorge-teixeira commented 5 years ago

first of all nice work...

but need mode documentation, how to install it and test it... sorry i am a noob

robertvorthman commented 5 years ago

Ya... I didn't imagine people would try and replicate this exact project. I published this so people could see what was possible with the Rasberry Pi and neopixels, and how Javascript can read midi files and control the lights.

This is not a good project for a noob as controlling neopixels from a Rasberry Pi is difficult and there are better devices suited for this purpose, such as Arduino's and FadeCandy.

You also need to find clean midi files that have simple notes and tracks, and/or edit the midi files using midi editing software.

If you really want to run neopixels from a Pi, check out the instructions I wrote here: https://github.com/robertvorthman/capacitive-piano

Once you get the Pi talking to the lights, you can try this JavaScript library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rpi-ws281x-native