urn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f8249 2017-07-14T19:47:32-06:00 SparkFun Electronics Customer #252418 urn:uuid:93b1c8c6-c4f0-d2c3-cc2c-00f503b4922b 2017-01-08T11:35:21-07:00 <p><a href="http://blog.crox.net/archives/102-APA106-KiCad.html" rel="nofollow" >APA106-F8 KiCAD library: http://blog.crox.net/archives/102-APA106-KiCad.html</a></p> DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM urn:uuid:ae632031-c3ad-86d9-94d7-deebc2c26bef 2016-11-29T17:01:56-07:00 <p>Mine are a bit buggy when doing an RGB cycle anyone know how to remedy this?</p> Customer #580744 urn:uuid:ec45a2cb-f4ac-2ce6-257c-116c25447cda 2016-03-30T20:04:47-06:00 <p>Does anyone know how bright these are? It would be good enough to know how much current they draw.</p> kobachi urn:uuid:833465fa-9366-3dab-c5ad-32da3994f073 2015-01-09T23:45:01-07:00 <p>They do that by design. Write 0&rsquo;s to them.</p> kobachi urn:uuid:f888d21a-3a9f-173a-9e1d-f9972c20219a 2015-01-02T23:29:58-07:00 <p>Google the product number from the &ldquo;datasheet&rdquo;, APA-106-F5</p> kobachi urn:uuid:756c7559-60ab-a0b3-a713-b05cf720d18c 2015-01-02T23:28:01-07:00 <p>Seems it would be easily enough to build a wrapper function &ndash; or just modify the original library &ndash; to transpose the RGB/GRB values.</p> Customer #334351 urn:uuid:3393f5d1-e9ab-caa6-b028-7d13495d7ae1 2014-12-16T20:55:26-07:00 <p>Does anyone have any info as to how quickly you can change these with an arduino?</p> Customer #628016 urn:uuid:c555987b-0c38-53d5-44d4-c078fd85ac74 2014-12-11T13:02:30-07:00 <p>That&rsquo;s not a datasheet, it&rsquo;s a marketing brochure. Where can I find the real datasheet for this device? How bright do they go? How much current do they draw?</p> threadzless urn:uuid:e029b799-ac6d-c248-69c3-bcbbd04f9ed2 2014-11-10T16:45:39-07:00 <p>Once set, you don&rsquo;t have to do anything to make them maintain their color</p> Customer #604943 urn:uuid:d6ad7b05-07b9-cccd-6533-93dd09dd7d32 2014-10-11T00:15:54-06:00 <p>Sorry to be dense, but is it necessary to continuously update the LEDs, even if the colors are all static? In my app, very little change of colors will be taking place, and the uP has plenty of other things to do other than shifting all those bits. If it can be left alone after update, I guess the level would be left high, then a reset issued before starting again later? Thanks all.</p> RichardBronosky urn:uuid:01d82b39-b604-f82c-bb53-90a5b5fa980d 2014-10-06T19:51:13-06:00 <p>I was able to power and drive a 5mm Diffused Addressable RGB LED https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12986 using a SparkFun 3.3v Arduino Pro Micro. However, I found that pins 5, 7, and the analog pins DO NOT WORK to drive this (at least with the Adafruit library). See more at http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&amp;t=61188</p> GeoffreyF urn:uuid:4c5e0e04-007b-a163-51d0-0632d4f68bc6 2014-08-25T20:21:37-06:00 <p>These are RGB products while most neopixels are GRB. If set to GRB while using neopixels, this strip.setPixelColor(pixelNumber, 0, 255, 0); will produce Green on a NeoPixel and Red on these through hole products. This can be readily worked around if you happen to be using this with neopixels as well but it will potentially complicate your code. Why would anyone mix up these products? You have to ask my shrink. :-)</p> <p>The Data out pin on these devices drives neopixels well. I am not sure why not but the data out from neopixels will not drive this during my experiments so far. I&rsquo;m not sure why. The long pin is ground. Don&rsquo;t reverse 5v and ground, not surprisingly these will not work properly after that. You can reverse conventional LED&rsquo;s, not these.</p> <p>I also noticed the power on blue effect someone else mentioned.</p> JGuthridge urn:uuid:d9669ae4-237d-06d9-6a30-b6a0a8f6dba9 2014-08-22T09:01:21-06:00 <p>No, they are not .1" spaced pins. You&rsquo;ll have to be creative with the pins if you need to mount them flush to a breadboard. Otherwise they work much like the way three pins parts like https://www.sparkfun.com/products/522 do.</p> joe57005 urn:uuid:bcb14165-c824-2104-54c7-c7db97a7c4c3 2014-08-09T18:47:24-06:00 <p>Mine immediately illuminate blue when powered. How do i stop this? i don&rsquo;t want my project to suddenly flash bright blue every time it power cycles. did i get a bad batch?</p> Customer #236148 urn:uuid:73576481-ee07-067f-c8f4-819e2550799b 2014-07-19T21:08:27-06:00 <p>I am able to make these work with several different devices, uno and trinket, but I am trying to get them to work with a stand alone ATtiny85, has anyone had any luck making this work? I am using the Adafruit_Neopixel.</p> M-Short urn:uuid:4c5cd815-44ba-60a8-58f8-80947d9cd7c2 2014-06-06T11:06:46-06:00 <p>I don&rsquo;t know whether to quote Princess Bride or Alanis Morissette&hellip;</p> Customer #273530 urn:uuid:1ebc562c-81b1-d07f-48e6-6bdd8ab9f218 2014-06-05T21:32:23-06:00 <p>i don&rsquo;t think ironic means what you think it means</p> Customer #273530 urn:uuid:f089b390-8c56-b703-46e5-bc63ce3ab9e6 2014-06-05T21:31:51-06:00 <p>does anybody know who is manufacturing these? i&rsquo;m looking for thousands of units. thx for any info.</p> Doctor Who urn:uuid:dce521fd-bea9-cf46-9778-da56febe7890 2014-06-02T16:50:28-06:00 <p>I find it rather ironic that they were in stock on Friday when I first discovered them here. And they are now out of stock.</p> Customer #513900 urn:uuid:ec2ad849-44c8-291a-fb38-90155c5c1797 2014-06-02T12:11:59-06:00 <p>Soldering Sunday has them in stock..5mm and 8mm varieties. http://solderingsunday.com/shop/components/pixelbits-v2/</p> Deadbot1 urn:uuid:456f7653-65ca-61c8-1c49-9253a3765468 2014-06-01T19:32:15-06:00 <p>are you planning to carry the 5mm version as well? 8mm is ok but it would be nice to have the smaller and more regularly used size&hellip;..</p> pzw urn:uuid:d36ae8ab-dd4a-5c24-71a6-77c630036869 2014-06-01T14:25:10-06:00 <p>Two questions;</p> <ul> <li>What is the pin spacing? 0.1" ?</li> <li>When will you have them back in stock&hellip;? I was just about to order them, but I see that there is no more stock&hellip;</li> </ul> <p>Thanks</p> Customer #370036 urn:uuid:1225f93e-e6a8-7f23-aeaa-371d9c7dd5af 2014-05-31T16:20:18-06:00 <p>You use an Arduino Library (e.g., Adafruit&rsquo;s Neopixel library), which allows you to call functions such as myLEDArray.setPixel( index, RedValue, GreenValue, BlueValue ) to address each LED according to its index. That&rsquo;s the gist of it, but yep, read up a bit on the so-called Neopixels to understand the communication protocol.</p> ARQuattr urn:uuid:5e91c9c8-4790-609a-a5bb-dd2834404883 2014-05-31T06:44:05-06:00 <p>Nick, from taking a look at the datasheet, it looks to me like you don&rsquo;t need set any ID in each LED. I&rsquo;m not sure I would use the term &lsquo;addressable&rsquo; to describe these (because I initially had the same question as you), but they are daisy-chained. You need to serialize your data for each of the LEDs and send it all to the first LED which passes the data for the remaining LEDs to the next one, and so on.</p> <p>Cool device.</p> alcurb urn:uuid:7a932920-0ace-6928-0d63-219e846cb4be 2014-05-30T22:19:58-06:00 <p>What is the maximum brightness of the Led per primary color? I did not see that spec in the one-page datasheet.</p> Customer #119889 urn:uuid:9e1b2ec5-7f32-37dc-17bb-b687b48fa7d9 2014-05-30T15:31:43-06:00 <p>Just curious if anyone has a link to some arduino code to control these LEDs in a 5 x 5 grid. I guess I would like to know how to send the id for each LED. Or if you were using only 5 of them how would you address them in Arduino code?</p> <p>thanks, Nick</p> wsanders urn:uuid:262f9301-2f92-a5ed-3879-3ba57dd64398 2014-05-30T15:20:14-06:00 <p>Brightness? About the same as WS2812?</p> wsanders urn:uuid:9dafb931-1d7c-c674-c194-abd3eec9d666 2014-05-30T15:05:07-06:00 <p>These have a WS2812-equivalent inside so presumably you control them with exactly the same protocol as any WS2812 device, like this one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11821 and its accociated breakout board https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11820 (except that the led voltage and mcu voltage are tied together as in the 4-pin WS-2812B.)</p> CQ urn:uuid:fb774bcd-3f47-02a7-5ba3-e5eb4b4fe9ff 2014-05-30T13:21:02-06:00 <p>You are right. The datasheet does not even describe how to address the LED&rsquo;s. SparkFun support, please advice.</p> Jeremy Wadhams urn:uuid:a5b537c5-3daf-cda0-f305-1eb319ed656a 2014-05-30T13:18:48-06:00 <p>The WS2812 chip built into these little LEDs <em>is</em> the same chip as the LilyPad pixel and the Addressable LED Strip. So if you&rsquo;ve ever used the super cool NeoPixel library, you already know how to use these. (All of this is clear in the data sheet 155489 posted, but I don&rsquo;t memorize IC part numbers, so I still had to look this up for myself. :) )</p> MikeGrusin urn:uuid:3d3511f2-27af-838c-428a-a5e07ba5ddd7 2014-05-30T11:06:00-06:00 <p>We sell those too. ;) <a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11821" rel="nofollow" >https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11821</a></p> Customer #155489 urn:uuid:f87d01c3-ad62-714d-b07d-fb138480eda2 2014-05-30T10:01:42-06:00 <p>The data sheet and this: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ws2812-breakout-hookup-guide/ws2812-overview</p> <p>Is all you really need and should be linked from this page.</p> kahuwi1 urn:uuid:feb21e92-c654-a50e-604c-dbcd3efe6695 2014-05-30T09:50:34-06:00 <p>&ldquo;This PTH version is incredibly similar to its SMD cousin, except it is a lot simpler to solder into your project and is in a diffused 8mm package.&rdquo;</p> KirAsh4 urn:uuid:526318be-db1d-4135-5385-0bad1d45ae05 2014-05-30T09:45:45-06:00 <p>What size are these? The datasheet lists an 8mm and a 5mm.</p> melstav urn:uuid:6e549bfb-ece1-ad83-1961-7ee3cc20bb08 2014-05-30T09:42:48-06:00 <p>Description states that it uses the same control IC as the WS2812. That means that the useful information ( beyond packaging and pin-ordering ) is going to be in that datasheet. Here&rsquo;s the link: http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/datasheets/Components/LED/WS2812.pdf ( copied from https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11821 )</p> Itzalive urn:uuid:cbfa6fca-b84d-16a7-8ddb-da4dc644c1fd 2014-05-30T08:43:02-06:00 <p>As it says which control IC it uses in the description I would suggest that was a good place to start for protocol information: http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812.pdf</p> ElectronPusher urn:uuid:01d74259-a346-214f-6c2b-e9db2bd83f3f 2014-05-30T08:36:53-06:00 <p>The wiring diagram is sufficient, but where are the protocol notes on how to set the colors as you shift through them.</p> DaveTheHacker urn:uuid:a5d1f503-1bf7-541d-58a8-5b315376cfb3 2014-05-30T08:36:15-06:00 <p>The communication protocol for changing colors and brightness is absent.</p> RobotConjurer urn:uuid:ecfaface-9060-1af1-f023-dd12d306a86a 2014-05-30T08:28:06-06:00 <p>There is a real problem with the datasheet. After downloading it, only the first page will display. There is obviously more information on the datasheet than is displayed.</p> Doctor Who urn:uuid:93572c6d-a780-3225-c27b-213dd2eb886d 2014-05-30T08:24:03-06:00 <p>@ARTTEC: What are you looking for? I&rsquo;ve seen less for ordinary LED devices.</p> ARTTEC urn:uuid:a697881d-fb66-ba3f-42c8-77105132cf44 2014-05-30T08:21:28-06:00 <p>So where&rsquo;s the rest of the data sheet? Not enough info there to use this cool LED!</p>