Components and supplies
USB-A to B Cable
Arduino UNO
5V 10A switching power supply
NeoPixel strip
Capacitor 1000 µF
Female DC Power adapter - 2.1mm jack to screw terminal block
Jumper wires (generic)
Resistor 475 ohm
Project description
Code
syncstrip binaries
csharp
Use this if you do not want to compile syncstrip yourself. It may have bugs, and may be outdated.
syncstrip
syncstrip binaries
csharp
Use this if you do not want to compile syncstrip yourself. It may have bugs, and may be outdated.
syncstrip
renderstrip
Downloadable files
Basic Connections
Basic connections for a NeoPixel LED strip and an Arduino (image from Adafruit)
Basic Connections
Basic Connections
Basic connections for a NeoPixel LED strip and an Arduino (image from Adafruit)
Basic Connections
Comments
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Anonymous user
2 years ago
Is there any way to make the animation loop?
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Could someone tell me what program I would have to use in order for it to sync to my Arduino Uno. Also what you use to program the LEDs.
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Absolutely an awesome project. I would love for you to to include the sprite for the song used in the youtube-vidjayo as an example instead. But anyways, great work and thank you for sharing it!
Anonymous user
2 years ago
This project is amazing . please share source code of this project in my mail id (prabhat.karmakar@live.com)
Anonymous user
2 years ago
plz tell me what to do after uploading render.ino into uno where how i will be using sync strip binaries
Anonymous user
2 years ago
plz share the animation for this music
Anonymous user
2 years ago
your communication protocol code helped me a ton in figuring out my own. Thank you so much for sharing!
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Wow great project. my compliments its very beautyfull. i'm a newby here but i wanne learn how to make a simaliry project like this. can you explain me how to begin and then how to do every following step? i'm very impressed. hopefully you want to help me? i appreciate any help. best regards Marco
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Amazing project! I want to create something like this, but I would love to have them look like traditional Christmas light bulbs. I looked on adafruit and they don't sell anything that isn't a flat strand. Would this work with other rgb light strands?
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Would ws2811 work? what about these pixels? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100pcs-DC12V-WS2811-LED-C9-pixel-node-with-faceted-White-C9-cover-together/1002760224.html?spm=2114.40010408.3.44.rxMUeY
kendfrey
2 years ago
As far as I can tell, any WS2812B or compatible LEDs should work. If you're lucky, you may be able to find them in bulbs. There's a good chance you'd need to manufacture your own by placing a diffuse bulb or cover over each LED and connecting them into a string manually. Longer strands may fail because of the speed and timing requirements of the chips. Any non-addressable RGB strands simply won't be able to display more than one color at a time.
kendfrey
2 years ago
I'm not sure if the Neopixel library is compatible with WS2811 LEDs, but if it's not, there are other libraries that are.
Anonymous user
2 years ago
Brilliant! Really good! :)
marcorens
3 years ago
Wow great project. my compliments its very beautyfull. i'm a newby here but i wanne learn how to make a simaliry project like this. can you explain me how to begin and then how to do every following step? i'm very impressed. hopefully you want to help me? i appreciate any help. best regards Marco
Anonymous user
4 years ago
your communication protocol code helped me a ton in figuring out my own. Thank you so much for sharing!
Anonymous user
4 years ago
Is there any way to make the animation loop?
Anonymous user
6 years ago
plz share the animation for this music
Anonymous user
6 years ago
plz tell me what to do after uploading render.ino into uno where how i will be using sync strip binaries
Anonymous user
6 years ago
How do I create the png for a song? What would it look like? What is the size of each box? What does each box mean? Thanks
CyberdyneT800
6 years ago
Fascinating project, thank you for sharing it with us all. Just one question, am I right in thinking that an animation would need to be written for each song? The reason I ask is because I am building a touch screen jukebox and I would love to incorporate your project into mine, the only problem would be my life wouldn't be long enough to spend 20 hours compiling animations for each song! Lol Regards John
gbd03933
2 years ago
did you find an auto animations
CyberdyneT800
2 years ago
Many thanks for that, understood, I'll go off and find one. All the best
Anonymous user
2 years ago
plz share your animation png
kendfrey
2 years ago
Yes, the animation is designed by hand for each song. You definitely don't need 20 hours per song to get something that looks good though. The reason it took me so long was because I had to create all the effects pretty much from scratch, and I used a lot of them. Once you have the technique down and a set of easy effects you can reuse, you could animate a song pretty well in 1 hour. There is also the option to use a program to generate animations automatically. There are many projects that do this. I did this myself for testing. If you're going to be dealing with thousands of songs, this is probably the only viable option.
Anonymous user
7 years ago
Absolutely an awesome project. I would love for you to to include the sprite for the song used in the youtube-vidjayo as an example instead. But anyways, great work and thank you for sharing it!
Anonymous user
8 years ago
Could someone tell me what program I would have to use in order for it to sync to my Arduino Uno. Also what you use to program the LEDs.
Starkie
8 years ago
Brilliant! Really good! :)
Papai
8 years ago
This project is amazing . please share source code of this project in my mail id (prabhat.karmakar@live.com)
matthewrowberry
8 years ago
Amazing project! I want to create something like this, but I would love to have them look like traditional Christmas light bulbs. I looked on adafruit and they don't sell anything that isn't a flat strand. Would this work with other rgb light strands?
matthewrowberry
2 years ago
Would ws2811 work? what about these pixels? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/100pcs-DC12V-WS2811-LED-C9-pixel-node-with-faceted-White-C9-cover-together/1002760224.html?spm=2114.40010408.3.44.rxMUeY
kendfrey
2 years ago
I'm not sure if the Neopixel library is compatible with WS2811 LEDs, but if it's not, there are other libraries that are.
kendfrey
2 years ago
As far as I can tell, any WS2812B or compatible LEDs should work. If you're lucky, you may be able to find them in bulbs. There's a good chance you'd need to manufacture your own by placing a diffuse bulb or cover over each LED and connecting them into a string manually. Longer strands may fail because of the speed and timing requirements of the chips. Any non-addressable RGB strands simply won't be able to display more than one color at a time.
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Anonymous user
2 years ago
How do I create the png for a song? What would it look like? What is the size of each box? What does each box mean? Thanks