“Such a great device! Current sensing is great to ensure that the power source is not overloaded, important for driving long LED strips. Hoping to develop some Python skill- this is the “Rainbow” example provided by Pimoroni.”
“I bought this to try and run some old ws2801 leds bought years ago. They require a clock line and a data line rather than just data and this has a 4th terminal marked clk.
I installed circuit Python so I could easily make use of adafruit’s ws2801 libraries.
After some trial and error I got the onboard led to colour cycle and the board to control a string of 40+ leds.
So everything is working well as far as I’m concerned.”
“Worked right out of the box, very easy to get started using microPython and the three user-definable buttons will come in handy. I also appreciate the USB-C connector.”
“Any pico is great for neopixel type projects but the additionla screw terminals make this easy to connect & the PICOW means that controlling via a web page is easy.”
