A custom ESP8266 board, which takes its power from a standard PC ATX power supply and can drive a string of WS2812/Neopixel RGB LEDs.

Initially designed to let us individually drive the Geometric Light “baubles”, it will also work on other similar LED strips. Here’s a little video of it in action:

I Want One!

We’re building a batch to drive the Geometric Lights, so figured we’d make them avaialble for anyone else who wants one too. Head over to our Tindie store to buy one!

Buy the board on Tindie

If you want to see how easy it is to get up and running, I filmed a short video showing the process from zero to flashy lights in under three minutes. It runs through the setup process and how to control it from your phone (it works just as well from a computer too!):

You Will Need

The My Baby’s Got LED board handles the control side of things, and makes it easy to plug together a system. For your very own controllable light setup you’ll need:

Setup

  1. Connect your LEDs to the board. For the 3-pin Neopixel/WS2812 lights, if it has the standard plug on it, then you can just plug it straight in. For anything else, use a screwdriver to fasten the wires into the green pluggable terminal blocks.
  2. Plug in the PC power supply, and if it has an on/off switch, turn it on. The software on the board will light up the first 30 LEDs in orange to show things are working.
  3. Use your computer or phone to connect to the WLED WiFi network, the default password is wled1234. That will take you to a page when you can control the lights.

After that, explore the tutorials and resources on the WLED software wiki