WS2801 Raspberry Pi Bridge

What

The WS2801 Bridge fro Raspberry Pi is a project developed by wizard23 and produced by overflo.

We received a Rasperrz Pi care package from [adafruit] and because we really dig blinky things we made a WS2801 controller for the Raspberry Pi.

Its a simple shield that you can attach to your Raspberry Pi that functions as a bridge from Raspberry Pi to control a wide variety of WS2801 based Ledstripes and Pixelmodules at different voltage levels.

You can make your things go blinky from python without the need of a separate microcontroller.

It uses the internal /dev/spi0.0 provided by the Linux Kernel to talk to the Bridgemodule.

Links

sources on Github

Kit on the hackerspaceshop.com

Pics

Raspberry Pi + Bridge

All Parts in the Kit

..with Ledstripe 32 leds/ meter

.. with pixels

..with flat pixels (12mm)

..with large dome pixels (12v, 5 cm)