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by tommyerols
Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:12 pm
Forum: Hardware Projects
Topic: Use FadeCandy with an USB hub connector
Replies: 4
Views: 8587

Re: Use FadeCandy with an USB hub connector

Thanks for your replies. It might be easier, as you said, to avoid the fadecandy. I will try that out. But the promise of that simple code to map a png image right onto the 8x8 pixels is still alluring. Well, it is all just a hobby, so solving the problem is the journey, now, isn't it? Will get back...
by tommyerols
Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:39 pm
Forum: Hardware Projects
Topic: Use FadeCandy with an USB hub connector
Replies: 4
Views: 8587

Use FadeCandy with an USB hub connector

I would like to talk to a fadecandy board from my upython. The object being to send images to my Adafruit Neopixel 8x8. It seems like connecting the upython and fadecandy through a USB hub would be a simple way.
Is this possible? Do I need a PyUSB library? Is there one?
thanks
Tom
by tommyerols
Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:12 am
Forum: Hardware Projects
Topic: Ideas for the project
Replies: 15
Views: 23884

Ideas for the project

What ideas do you all have for using the board? I would like to interface a good resolution six axis accelerometer so the position and orientation of the device can be calculated. Then it could be used to map the stairs and tunnels of our Paris metro. Or it could be packaged into a disposable buoy w...