DESCRIPTION
RETIRED PRODUCT – We’ve stopped stocking this product or it has been retired by the manufacturer and is no longer for sale. This page remains available for its resources and as a source of potential interest.
This is the FadeCandy, a USB controlled LED driver with on-board dithering to help illuminate your Neopixel project. Even though the FadeCandy was designed to be used alongside of the NeoPixel Line the driver also works with most WS2811/12 LEDs. This little board has been designed to help both beginners and the advanced LED techie!
Eight outputs line the bottom of the FadeCandy to provide you with a way to support up to 512 LEDs total assigned to each output in eight strips of 64 LEDs each. Thanks to the firmware each driver utilizes a unique built in dithering algorithm to help in colour correction to make the light from each WS2812 appear and move and fade smoothly.
FEATURES
RESOURCES
- Schematic
- Eagle Files
- LED Art with FadeCandy
- NeoPixel Ãœberguide
- NeoPixel Library
- GitHub (Design Files and Example Code)
- Why Neopixels are *NOT* as difficult to drive as everyone claims they are!