WiFi-LED-XMAS-tree

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WiFi LED XMAS tree

Release status: experimental [box doku]

WiFi LED XMAS tree.jpg
Description Pimp an ordinary LED christmas tree and make it controllable via wifi
Author(s)  Uli, Rene, Marijn
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 round white circuit board such as one of these [2]
  • WEMOS D1 mini based on the ESP8266 (such as this one [3])

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.

Find it in on GitHub in our Group

History (reverse orders => latest on top)

  • ordered 8 new trees, two are already promised to Tobi
  • To make the basic LED animation more smooth, lately we programmed a Chen attractor function but did not finish it properly yet.

Want one for yourself?

  • if you can spare roughly 5€ ask me - I just ordered some replenishment trees with

Todo

  • Socket for the tree
 * maybe with a display to directly find out about the DNS name and/or IP address

List of known bugs

  • yet to come...

Feature requests

  • git-secrets to store WiFi credentials in GitHub
  • proper encapsulation of animation functions
    • Marijn and I implemented a Chen attractor function to make the transitions more smoothly and random
  • 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...