Wireless Technologies

Overview

The revolution of iOT (Internet of Things) has been beneficial to the Christmas Lighting community by bringing the ability to incorporate industry standard wifi as a connection method for our lighting controllers. The advantage of wireless is of course the reduction in cables and potentially more flexibility in light element design.

One great feature of this technology is that it is very inexpensive. The first widely adopted technology is based on a chip know as the ESP8266. Here is a link to wiki entry for this little beauty if you care to read up on it: ESP8266 wiki entry

Designs with detailed information

• ESPixel Sticks, Pixel Pops & Pixel Pops Tiny
• Programming board for: Pixel Sticks, Pixel Pops & Pixel Pops Tiny ESP-01 based controllers
• RenardESP, Rob Porter's retrofit board for RENARD controllers
• ESPixel GECE, Rob Porter's retrofit board for GECE pixels

http://www.doityourselfchristmas.com/wiki/index.php?title=ESPixel_Stick_%26_ESPixel_Pops