SK6812 led strip control by chipKIT

Created Wed, 16 Sep 2015 07:59:00 +0000 by alanwangwang

alanwangwang

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 07:59:00 +0000

Nowadays , i have got some led chip , they are SK6812, It include SK6812 RGB LED , SK6812RGBW LED ,SK6812WWA led , Normally i use arduino to control them , now i want to use chipkit to control them ,if anybody have the libraries for them . thanks

majenko

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:23:29 +0000

I'm not familiar with those LEDs, but they look very much like knock-off WS2812s.

You can try working with them as if they were WS2812 and see how you go. A howto can be found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Getting-Started-with-WS2812-LEDs-with-Digilent-chi/

The library requires DMA in the host microcontroller, so it won't work with the low-end chipKITs like the Uno32, etc.

EmbeddedMan

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:52:52 +0000

Also, if you need different bit timings from what the WS2812 needs, there is a new version of the ckWS2812 library for chipKIT that not only uses a lot less memory but allows you to set up different bit timing.

*Brian

daisy1988

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:37:15 +0000

SK6812 led is clone ws2812b led,you can use ws2812b library for sk6812 led.

majenko

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:54:07 +0000

For WS2812B LEDs I now use the PICxel library, which is also used by the NeoMatrix driver for DisplayCore.

• https://github.com/mwingerson/PICxel
• https://github.com/DisplayCore/NeoMatrix