“Motes are awesome! Python interface is very easy to use (although it's a bit odd to have the channels start at 1 and the pixels at zero) and the LEDs are bright to the point of being painful.
A few minor nits-- the online tutorial for connecting to HomeBridge is several years out of date and relies on code that is several generations newer and an app that's no longer in the iOs app store. The changes in the HomeBridge software mean you have to tweak your own code before things will run (I'm going to document what I did and send that in). My other nit is that the color representation is a bit off; I've had a hard time finding a "warm white", for example, that actually looks warm and not cold.”
“Was going to make up a circuit board and build my own led lighting for a 3D printer but saw this and saved myself a lot of work. Also I can just unplug the led strips when I remove the plexiglass top to access the printer. Very happy with the whole kit.”
“This kit gives a great opportunity to experiment with something easy to see if it works. And if you get bored with it, you can always build it under a kitchen cupboard for countertop illumination, which is of course an overkill for these great RGB LEDs. The Python library provided online is easy to use. The only disadvantage is that C library and API description has not been provided.”
“Great fun to play with. Managed to create Python code to connect multiple Mote hosts controllers to my Windows PC. Ready to experiment and create "low resolution" display.”
“My neice (13) was very excited to receive this as a gift and plans to use it in her bedroom, I haven't yet heard how she has got on with it in practice but she was very confident that using online resources she would be able to suss it out.
For my part I am tempted to pick one up myself as I can think of a few different projects this would be cool for.”
