Data in, Not Out

While we didn’t have much success a couple of days ago, today we got the lights to work properly. Turns out, that I’ve made the beginner mistake number 1 when dealing with Neopixels — I connected the data signal from the Fadecandy to the DOUT pin of the LED strip (there’s also a DIN pin, at the other end of the strip). The “D” stands for “Data”, while I will leave you to guess what OUT and IN mean… To make this work, the data needs to go to the DIN port of a pixel strip…

I should have read the Digital LED Strip Read Me First first.

A view of the completed electronic mess with a bonus of a deeply sceptic cat:

And here the strands are laid out in the geometry we plan to use later, controlled by a self written Python script.