{"id":16622,"date":"2017-03-17T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16622"},"modified":"2017-03-17T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:05:35","slug":"bright-led-arrowpointer-prototyped-on-a-raspberry-pi-and-run-with-a-wemos-esp8266-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16622","title":{"rendered":"Bright LED arrow\/pointer prototyped on a Raspberry Pi and run with a Wemos ESP8266 board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2017\/make-an-led-arrow-sign-with-raspio-inspiring\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16624\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-blog-768x386.png?resize=560%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-blog-768x386.png?resize=768%2C386&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-blog-768x386.png?resize=300%2C151&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-blog-768x386.png?resize=560%2C281&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-blog-768x386.png?resize=260%2C131&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-blog-768x386.png?resize=160%2C80&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Eames, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16612\">who was covered in a community profile yesterday<\/a>, has used his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raspitv\/raspio-inspiring-connect-rgb-led-shapes-sculpt-you\" target=\"_blank\">RasPiO Inspiring system<\/a> of bright LEDs in geometric shapes to create an illuminated pointing sign. He&#8217;s blogged about the mini-project, which involved some foam board, some sewing and, eventually, an ESP8266 Wemos board (he started out by prototyping the code in Python on a Raspberry Pi and then ported it to the Arduino-like Wemos). You can <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2017\/make-an-led-arrow-sign-with-raspio-inspiring\" target=\"_blank\">read about the work that went into the sign here<\/a> and take a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/raspitv\/raspio-inspiring-connect-rgb-led-shapes-sculpt-you\" target=\"_blank\">look at RasPiO Inspiring here<\/a>. You can see the results in the GIF below, but you can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_XA0hhf1KE\" target=\"_blank\">see a video of it working here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2017\/make-an-led-arrow-sign-with-raspio-inspiring\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16623\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Arrow-wemos-workshop-320-high.gif?resize=320%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alex Eames, who was covered in a community profile yesterday, has used his RasPiO Inspiring system of bright LEDs in geometric shapes to create an illuminated pointing sign. He&#8217;s blogged about the mini-project, which involved some foam board, some&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16622\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,55,80,13],"tags":[189,284,254,257],"class_list":["post-16622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-arduino","category-blinkies","category-crowdfunding","tag-esp8266","tag-inspiring","tag-raspio","tag-wemos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bright LED arrow\/pointer prototyped on a Raspberry Pi and run with a Wemos ESP8266 board - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16622\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bright LED arrow\/pointer prototyped on a Raspberry Pi and run with a Wemos ESP8266 board - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Alex Eames, who was covered in a community profile yesterday, has used his RasPiO Inspiring system of bright LEDs in geometric shapes to create an illuminated pointing sign. 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