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README.md

The PIXO Pixel

PIXO Pixel is a 16 x 16 RGB LED display that runs off of an ESP32. This project is open source! You can find the Bill of Materials here on FindChips.

I have submitted a pull request to the Arduino-ESP32 github: https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32 to have the PIXO Pixel have its own board file. This will ensure the pinout that was used will match the pin declartion on the board. In the meantime, please use the "Adafruit Feather ESP32" in the board manager, as the pinout is the same.

Flashing Firmware Instructions

  1. You need to have the current version of the Arduino IDE installed
  2. Ensure that you have the Arduino ESP32 Boards installed (This library is currently broken, a workaround has been found Here)
  3. Various other libraries are required for the example firmware; they are listed below under "Libraries used in Example Firmware"
  4. Connect your pixo pixel to your computer and start Arduino
  5. Under the "Tools" menu, select "Board->Adafruit ESP32 Feather"; Leave Flash frequency and Upload speed the default
  6. Under Port, select your pixo
  7. Compile and upload
  8. When the Arduino console says "Connecting....", press and release both the boot and reset buttons simultaniously
  9. You should start to see output about flashing
  10. When the flash is complete, press the reset button on the pixo to start your new firmware

Here is a video of Sean going into detail demonstrating some of the examples

Libraries used in Example Firmware

Install these to your sketchbook's libraries folder, usually located in YOUR HOME/Documents/Arduino

Note Arduino IDE was complaining about i2cdevlib being invalid as the installation instructions are a bit unclear. I found that copying the I2Cdev and MPU6050 folders to the libraries folder from the Arduino folder seems to kinda work. Perhaps I have the wrong library, because I get compile errors when trying to use either I2Cdev or MPU6050 from the above source.

Kickstarter - Success

This was a Make100 Kickstarter that was recently fulfilled

Kickstarter Vid

Completion Video