Not knowing what I was going to experience, I came into the office to put together the FLiP Holiday Kit and document my experience, above! Within an hour, it was wired up and I logged into a Parallax WiFi network using the OLED to navigate through and set a password. There were a couple of games ready to play before I even programmed it with the sample code. I powered the kit from the USB 120VAC power supply and loaded the sample code via WiFi using Spin Tools IDE and had control over WS2812b LEDs. Learning how to program in Spin is easiest with a project.
I’ll be using the WiFi programming to program some of my robots that are always rolling (or walking) away. Customers who build products can use this feature to reprogram their devices around the world. Also, the Propeller OBEX has many WS2812b drivers (often from JonnyMac) and our customers have used them to illuminate 5-acre properties like Terry Trapp showed us yesterday, at the Propeller Live Forum (link below). Buy extra strings of the WS2812b LEDs at Amazon and light an entire tree with your own animations, reprogramming from the other side of the room over WiFi.
Important: the documentation for this product is on the product page, under downloads. You’ll find everything you need in that location. Ask questions on the Parallax forums and we’ll be there to reply during the holiday break.
At $79, this is a value. We’ve only got 100 of them!
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
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