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Painting with Light: Wireless LED Workshop

Paint with light in this workshop on interactive LED sculpture. In this six hour course, you will explore creating mid-size to large LED installations using the wireless ESP8266 microcontroller.

Saturday, August 5th, 12pm-6pm
Cost: $220 (6 hours x $30 + $40 dollar material fee).

Topics to be covered:

-Introduction to the ESP8266
-Introduction to addressable LED's
-Controlling addressable LED's with the Fast LED and Neopixel Libraries
-How to solder
-Using a WebGUI to monitor the LED's
-Modify and install a hybrid mobile app to monitor your installation.
-Overview of how to power an LED installation.

Discounts available for students and the underemployed.

The workshop will utilize the popular ESP8266 Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller unit capability. Using the controller gives you a powerful programmable, interactive, networked LED platform. It's also portable and low-cost.

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