Longer LED strips for MOTE

[manicstar]

Are there any other APA 102 compatible strips that can b used with the Mote controller? I’d like longer ones if possible.

[PaulWebster]

You can wire in a strip of APA102 yourself if you have a soldering iron

Hacking my motes

So… the mote sticks are too big to fit on my current project. I saw the thread about cutting mote sticks and may resort to doing that, but then I thought “Mote sticks are just APA102s, so I could wire up my own strip of these and run them off the mote controller!” So I sliced up a USB cable and wired it to a strip of APA102 LEDs, as shown: [image] The problem is, when I plug in the USB Mote Controller, a random selection of the LEDs on the strip light up, then stay lit up whatever I do. Here’…

See the thread for some details … also, I suspect that if you have different numbers of LEDs on the connectors then some software might be confused (I know that the bit that I wrote assumed that each stick has 16 LEDs … relatively easy to change of course).