pj (pixel jockey)

do not look

what?

easy to use modular LED pixels that can be controlled with your laptop or phone, with modes for parties that beat to music.

target audience

DJs, party hosts, or wannabe VJs.

hardware

"pixels"

individually addressable RGB LEDs

• APA102C LED
  • strips (but if longer than 4 meters, needs special way to inject more power at each 4 meter mark),
  • OR grids

"pixel follower" (server)

small independent microcontrollers that receive pixel messages over WiFi and send them to RGB LEDs.

• Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi
• ESP32

status: will wait on announced Adafruit Feather ESP32 board.

"pixel leader" (client)

• your laptop,
• OR you phone!

TODO

• scaffold a follower simulator using electron
• scaffold a leader that sends rainbow pixels
• follower broadcasts up over mdns
• follower broadcasts length over mdns
• leader is an electron app
• leader sees available followers
• leader picks the current mode (rainbow)
• leader connects to followers
• leader sends periodic heartbeat messages to followers (special opc message)
• leader arranges pixels for overall scene
• leader arranges pixels for each follower

license

AGPL-3.0