QuinLED-Dig-Quad Pinout Guide QuinLED-Dig-Quad v1r6 LED1 – 4 are connecting through a uni-directional level-shifter, they cannot be used for inputs! For APA102, Data=GPIO26 + Clock=GPIO3 is recommended. Running 2x APA102 seems to have issues with the available LED GPIO pins *On some ESP32 mini boards LED2 and LED3 can be reversed! Wiring Guide Wiring […]
QuinLED-Dig-Quad Soldering guide This guide is for the v1 revision 6 board, please see revision history here To build a QuinLED-Dig-Quad board I have compiled a video guide where we go through all the steps of soldering one together, you can pause at each step and follow along with your own board! Next to that […]
QuinLED-Dig-Quad Hardware guide The board is now also available in a pre-assembled version here! To build the QuinLED-Dig-Quad you are going to need several components which are listed below. As a little disclaimer, please take a look at this article about my shopping links. After reading that, make sure to also take a look at […]
QuinLED-Dig-Quad Revision history To try and keep track of past revisions and the major changes between the versions here is a list of past releases and some of the things that have changed QuinLED-Dig-Quad Version 1 Revision 6 2020-06-19 Initial release version Revision 6b 2020-08-7 Changed screw holes from M2 to M2.5
QuinLED-Dig-Quad This is a DIY project, click here to go to the hardware guide | Pre-Assembled version is available now! This board is meant for individually addressable LEDs, if you are looking to control Analog LEDs, check out the QuinLED-Quad! QuinLED-Dig-Quad is part of the QuinLED digital LED controller family and is an ESP8266/ESP32 powered […]
Why would you want a power supply relay? Digital LEDs are basically analog LEDs but each LED has a tiny controller inside of them. That means that even when you turn them off each LED will continue using a little bit of power (not the case for pure Analog LEDs like with the QuinLED-Quad or […]
QuinLED-Dig-Uno Soldering guide Video guide is still for v2r5, images below have been updated to reflect v2r6! Please see revision history for changes If you are looking for the v2r5 soldering guide, click here To solder the QuinLED-Dig-Uno together I’ve made a video which takes you through all the steps involved. I think anyone should […]
Default max 12v Compatible By default board revision up to and v2r6 are either 5v, or, 5v and 12v compatible. The same goes for the pre-assembled versions of these versions (I am considering changing this in a future revision, more testing needs to be done for this!). There is not much headroom in there because […]
QuinLED-Dig-Uno Hardware guide This hardware guide is for board revision v2r6, please see the revision page for updates (and link to old guide) This board is now also available in pre-assembled form! To build the QuinLED-Dig-Uno you are going to need several components which are listed below. As a little disclaimer, please take a look at […]
Specialty strips The strips I put in this category have some special feature which makes them stand out from normal LED strip. Think of things like having a different form, amount of LEDs or construction. COB LED strip A COB LED strip is constructed differently vs a normal LED strip. Instead of soldering SMD […]