Fail of week: WS2811 VU-Meter
January 19, 2014
after the few commercial projects, i got some me-time
at last. i sold all of my geek toys and some trash on ebay except few http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino target=_blank
>arduino boards and shields. and i tried to make something useful from this spare parts.
http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/WS2811_Digital_RGB_LED target=_blank
>WS2811 is a digital adressable rgb led controller unit. some eastern tech-manufacturers developed independent color http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/led-strip.html target=_blank
>led strips by combining rgb leds and that chip. i purchased half-meter length sample and tried few tests with arduino. looks like working ok but the problem is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR target=_blank
>ATmega8 clock rate too slow for this kind operations. an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM target=_blank
>ARM or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPGA target=_blank
>FPGA based board required for real light shows.
