LED Matrix - Connect, Power & Control - Setup Guide 

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Love the no-nonsense content! Can't to see what projects you'll use these for!

these tutorials have been amazing! Well done! I keep getting inspired by your videos on what my next led projects will be!

That's a cool little product. Excited to see what you'll come up with.

Wago should sponsor you....if it wasnt for you, I wouldnt had bought a bunch

Can't wait to see what ideas you come up woth for these panels Chris.

I have watched so many of your videos...I can't believe that you have a video for nearly every question I can think of. Very nicely explained and edited!! Keep up the Great work!

Wago's are the best, I use them all the time. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Can you do a motion sensor with WLED set up, I'm loving these tutorial's. Simple easy and straight forward with link's to get everything you need. Thanks a bunch!

I did this and put it in a wood frame with some flat foam packing and use it as a ambient light for my office at work

Check out the soundreactive fork of wled, they have matrix pattern effects!

Thank you Chris. 🙏🏻

Would you be able to make a heart beat motion with this technology?? 🙏🏻

Hey Chris. WLED also has a matrix function too. For 2D effects (rather than 1D) should make an additional video showing off this too! Cheers.

Thank you so much for this video Chris. What was that diffuser you used at the end please? That effect was absolutely mesmerizing

Would you use these for photography? What’s the wattage output?

It would be nice to have a "design your own RGBLED pattern" similar to the CCA makers/sponsors. I like the premade forms over individual RGBLED soldering. It makes sense for me to use premade in time and ruggedness. I am working on embedding a cop light on a police bike (red/blue with sequencing). Need it to be all weather, last many hours without a charge and be annoyingly bright.

How many of these can you connect together?

Hey! Could you please do a video on how to connect these to a dmx lighting controller ??

If I buy 4 of the 256 panels and connect them together and then change the pixel number on the app accordingly will all of them light up and work without extra power or other parts?

Great vid

I have tried 3 ESP32 WROOM 32 and 2 LED matrices. Somehow the matrix won't turn on; all is done as described, with WLED configured and enabled. What is going on?

Chris, do you plan on making an LED star ceiling video in the future?

Question would you be able to link up a few of these to make a digital clock? As soon as I saw that panel i thought about linking 4 of them together.

I wanna make a cube using 5 16x16 led matrices, any idea how much current that would draw and what kind of adapter I should be using?

How come you're using the esp32? Wouldn't a Arduino be sufficient?

Hi there, this is pretty cool. But I was looking for a way to program static letters and numbers. I want to learn how to program and Arduino to scroll writing left to right, right to left, as well as top and bottom. But more importantly, how to get letters and numbers to snap in and out and fade in/out of each other. For example, a countdown from 10 to 1 fade out and in over each other. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

Is it possible to make your own matrix board? I want to decorate a truck for a light show and I don’t like string lights. Also how many led’s can an esp32 board handle. I’m not familiar with anything so if my terminology is wrong I’m sorry in advance.

Hi Chris, please tell me what program do you use to control it?

TRy to test SP801E led controller, it can be used as for Matrix and for single lines of rgb lights, Very nice controller But not working with assistants maybe in fuuture updates, But you can attach led matrix set how many pixels you have, or make a line, or even create your own layout, works with ws2812b etc strips and matrix panels, also you can make you own effects, there is a build in app effects which can be mdified and can be written into device mmemory and run without app, you cna create playlists etc, also it has animation tab so you can draw you animation and save it for later, not tlaking about text, plus there is a 3 layers which can be combined toghether, and for some one main feature its support to run like art-net device, so you can you Jinx, resolume arena on it, from PC, sure it will be online but the amount of effects is unlimited, so govee is not capable of doing this. if only govee has like ability to create animations not like prebuild from patterns in which you can only change colors speed etc, it will still stayed the same... I if want f.e. make such effect like: lights are slowly one by one encrease their brightness, and after that all glowing permanently will be cool. The 1 bad thing about sp801e controller all effects a generated with frames, so its like you record animation so it played and after that stop playing, sure you can st it in a playlist for 20 times but still some switching flashes will be visible. Sorry for my english. And this is not ad i bought it with my money... and order another one to put it into the window for New Year animation.

What are the 3 pins tabs in the corner for?

hi! i have a question. i whanted to add this panel to my PC, it has 3pin 5v adresseable header, 3A5V MAX, i was thinking, i have two options. 1) connect 2-3 molex adapters to the power panel leads, and only grnd + data of the motherboard header to the panel or 2 ) data + grd + power of the header to the panel + 2-3 ground + 5v of the molex adapter. Do you think that its safe ?

Is it possible to setup a grid of ws2812 LED Strips and have it work like a matrix

could you teach us how to program that in Arduino to upload pics and .gifs to it

Are all ESP32 5v Looking on EBay and lots are 3.3v?

i follow your way but wled not turn on.

this is amazing

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