WiFi-LED-XMAS-tree

     

WiFi LED XMAS tree Release status: experimental [box doku]
Description	Pimp an ordinary LED christmas tree and make it controllable via wifi
Author(s)	Uli, Rene
Download	https://github.com/munichmakerlab/wifi-led-xmas-tree

Introduction

This project is about a WiFi LED XMAS tree consisting of an ordinary electronics gadget LED christmas tree with a pimped top LED and connected to a WEMOS D1 mini to enable WiFi control.

The hardware

• ordinary LED christmas tree (such as this one from Ali Express [[1]])
• pimped multi color controllable LED (we used the WS2812B on a small white circuit board such as one of these [[2]]
• WEMOS D1 mini based on the ESP8266 (such as this one [[3]])

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  Ordinary LED christmas tree in action

The code

So far we programmed basic animation for the LEDs and a little webserver to accept commands for turning on and off seperate LED colors. To make the animation more smooth, lately we programmed a Chen attractor but did not finish it properly. Feel free to report bugs or create new features :)

Find it in on GitHub in our [[4]]

List of known bugs

• yet to come...

Feature requests

• proper encapsulation of animation functions
• more animations for LEDs
• timer function for automatic wakeup/sleep (maybe simply based on time or location and sundown/sunrise?)
• crowd control of multiple trees at once
• put your ideas here...