bill1959parker

Hi Becky I stuck 36 ping pong balls onto a strip of ws2812 and put them in a large jar using clear silicone to stop them moving with all the strip and controller in the centre so nothing shows It had a tap outlet near the bottom I took that off to alow my power supply 5V cable to enter through the hole.. I made 2 one for my daughter and one for my carer and both love them. I used ir controllers off ebay but now after using BLYNK I wish i had used the ESP2866-12E so it they could be switched from anywhere. Thanks for the great idea of ping pong balls. I intend making myself one using cotton wool as i made an imitation fire with ws2812 and cotton wool and it looked vert effective. I am now following you and hope to try plenty of your ideas to pass my time and spend hours learning from you...

Hi Becky I stuck 36 ping pong balls onto a strip of ws2812 and put them in a large jar using clear silicone to stop them moving with all the strip and controller in the centre so nothing shows It had a tap outlet near the bottom I took that off to alow my power supply 5V cable to enter through the hole.. I made 2 one for my daughter and one for my carer and both love them. I used ir controllers off ebay but now after using BLYNK I wish i had used the ESP2866-12E so it they could be switched from anywhere. Thanks for the great idea of ping pong balls. I intend making myself one using cotton wool as i made an imitation fire with ws2812 and cotton wool and it looked vert effective. I am now following you and hope to try plenty of your ideas to pass my time and spend hours learning from you on my days of having to stay in bed due to my disability.Thank You

Hi Kelly I use ws2812 led strips off ebay for approx £16 for 5 Mtrs. That way each led can be a different colour if you want and if you buy a ws2812 led controller they are around £3 and a 5v plug in adaptor for £1.99 all from ebay china dont worry about it coming from china as any of these bought cheap in the uk will be from china you will pay 3 or 4 times more for same item from the UK also I have never had to pay duty on electronic items from china you normally get stung from USA for duty. If you use the ws2812 led strip just make sure you order everything 5V as 12V is available also but I like to stick to 5V as I sometimes program arduino's to run them and any boards like arduino raspbery pi and so on are all 5V. There is never any problem with heat. If you see Neopixel they can be ...

Hi Kelly I use ws2812 led strips off ebay for approx £16 for 5 Mtrs. That way each led can be a different colour if you want and if you buy a ws2812 led controller they are around £3 and a 5v plug in adaptor for £1.99 all from ebay china dont worry about it coming from china as any of these bought cheap in the uk will be from china you will pay 3 or 4 times more for same item from the UK also I have never had to pay duty on electronic items from china you normally get stung from USA for duty. If you use the ws2812 led strip just make sure you order everything 5V as 12V is available also but I like to stick to 5V as I sometimes program arduino's to run them and any boards like arduino raspbery pi and so on are all 5V. There is never any problem with heat. If you see Neopixel they can be used with the same controller as the ws2812.

Hi Thank you this is a very easy tutorial and the very first BLYNK tutorial I have managed to follow and it work. You put it in very simple steps I will definitely be following you keep up the good work. Thanks again.

Hi is the full code available for this or is it here but I don't understand it? I'm disabled from a head injury and find things hard to understand these days but want to build this. I have played with BLYNK but can not write code myself but hope to pick it up as I go along. ThanksBill

Hi I have a radio scanner that uses my serial 9pin D to control it. Would this work for me to have a wireless link to my radio scanner??Thanks

Hi as you obviously know about serial communication I wonder if you could please answer a question for me. I have a radio scanner that I control with a windows program with a D9 serial cable. The radio antenna is on the other side of my bedroom and I am disabled and have to spend a lot of time in bed so I want to know if it is possible to use HC-05 or HC-06 bluetooth modules to transmit and receive the serial from my laptop to my scanner? If not do you know of a simple way of doing this?. I can then use my wireless headphones with the scanner with my laptop on my over bed table.Thanking youBill

Hi I have a radio scanner I use a D 9pin serial lead to my pc to control is it possible to do this over bluetooth or wifi? Thanking youBill

Hi i have built mine but not sure what bit to order i want to carve wood and cut 4mm plywood but can not find any writeup on router bits for use with a dremel or equivalent to a dremel mine is from maplin. Can some kind person please advise me on what bit to order from ebay by giving the ebay order number. It would be nice to know if there are different bits for different materials what bits should be used so i can buy a selection of bits.Thanks

Hi can you please tell me can I switch this from anywhere or is it only local over my wifi ? I can use it over my wifi but not from anywhere could you please tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks.