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briggsm
 
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Sharing a project

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I've been working on a fun project (controlling 2 NeoPixel LED strips via WiFi, from a web browser, using Javascript & PHP, to make self-running or user-controlled light show animations) with almost everything bought from Adafruit, (and lots of help from you guys!) and I'd like to share the project with others. But I'm not sure the best way to do this. Do you have a preferred way of doing this? Should I just make my own blog & paste links to it somewhere? I looked in the "Blog" section of Adafruit's website, but I don't see anywhere I could post a blog entry. Guessing I can put the code in my account on github, and share the code that way, right?

Thanks for your ideas & pointing me in the right direction.

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Re: Sharing a project

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I think creating a blog would be the way to publish the details, photos and the instructions then post your code in github. You could sign up for the show and tell hangout and show off your project. I'd love to see what you've done.

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Re: Sharing a project

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Thanks for the info! I created a blog/tutorial (with video demos, pictures, and a "how-to"):

Tutorial: http://briggs-inc.com/blog/colorring/
ColorRing Library: https://github.com/briggsm/colorring
ColorRing CC Library: https://github.com/briggsm/colorringcc

The project, in a nutshell:
2 Adafruit NeoPixel LED strips, connected to Arduino board, controlled from a web browser, over Wi-Fi.
Use the web browser to create & send commands to the LED strips, as well as send real-time color data to the LED strips.

I'd love to do the show & tell hangout, but the time is 2am in my timezone.... "Back in the day...", no problem, but now with our 1-year old daughter who likes to wake up at 5 or 6am (and occasionally at 2 or 3am just to say "hi"), it's too hard. Anyhow, hopefully the video demo (in the tutorial listed above) will give a good enough idea of the project.

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Re: Sharing a project

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For anybody interested, I added another short demo video (2 min.). LEDs in plexiglass, and shows off some clock functionality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pgfKWsUrCQ

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