#HWYD WS2811 BRIDGE: GUIDE ###Prototyping with Neopixels and the Rasperry PI

This is a guide for using our Raspberry Pi shield designed with LED prototyping in mind. It attaches to the GPIO pins of your Raspberry Pi and acts as a WS2811 Bridge between LED's of your choice. We love prototyping with Neopixels and needed a tool that was easy to use. The shield allows us to get our prototypes going right away without the need of a breadboard, cobbler setup and extra wires.

#NOTE

• Supports Raspbbery Pi A, B/B+, 2 and 3.
• Works with any WS2811 / WS2812 LED's and Neopixels
• 3 and 4 pin Molex slots for easily swapping out your LED's
• 100uf capacitor to protect against surges while powering
• Inspired by adafruit Neopixels and Fadecandy.

#BUILD GUIDE

We chose Raspberry Pi for it's speed, networking capabilities, threading etc. Also we like the flexbility Python offers for web and data minded projects.

###STEP 1: PARTS LIST

* HWYD Board
* Raspberry Pi
* 3pin Molex
* Power Jack
* IC
* IC Socket
* 2x20 Headers
* 100uF Capacitor

###STEP 2: SOLDER

Solder it up. This version of the board has 5 parts and should take 
10-15 minute to complete.

###STEP 3: ATTACH

DIN, POWER, GROUND

#INSTALLING DRIVERS We are using the rpi_ws281 library from jgarff. You can find a more detailed version of the driver installation guide from adafruit.

###STEP 1: Update your Pi

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev git scons swig

###STEP 2: Download the rpi_ws281 library

git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x.git
cd rpi_ws281x
scons

###STEP 3: Install

cd python
sudo python setup.py install

###STEP 4: Run an example

cd python/examples
sudo python strandtest.py

#Where do I get one? Let us know, It's only $10!

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