“I've been having a lot of fun with this kit today. The learning curve was steep, but the end result is that I now have a webserver running on my Plasma stick that I can access from my tablet to change the animation patterns, speed and brightness of the lights. The 10m star lights are really pretty and will look great around the house.”
“With just a pico or pico 2 and more than a few neopixels at once, you can end up with dim lights or lights where the colour is off (according to the Adafruit guide, this is to be expected when you run them on 3V instead of 5V).
This unit is tailor made for neopixels and provides the 5V feed they need to stay bright and keep their colours true. I used the Adafruit neopixel library with these, and this works wonderfully as a drop-in replacement for a pico or pico 2 with no code changes other than adjusting the GPIO pin that controls the neopixel colours.
Also, the starter kit is a pretty good deal, and those lights can cover a good amount of space for the money.”
“Got the Plasma 2350W Working straight away with the Non-Wireless examples. It took a few days for the 'fixed / working' 'pico2_w-v0.0.11-pimoroni-micropython.uf2' file to be released on the 12th which then also worked ok. I guess i was expecting some more 'dynamic' examples for the Wireless version but i guess these will follow in due course. There's nothing wrong with the wireless examples provided per-se but they don't realy showcase the led strip like the non-wireless version. An example that would alter the ligh sequence based upon the sound file from a web based radio station would be astounding. E.g. Your own Disco light show. A great product therefore that with a few more imaginative examples will realy wow new users to MicroPython and Wireless control/”
