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Raspberry PI Zero LEDStrip Controller

The Raspberry Pi Zero has been out for quite a while now and inspiring projects with the Pi Zero pop up everywhere on maker websites. The 5 dollar Pi inspired me (Marcel Brouwers) and Chris Kuipers to start a project to control RGB ledstrips using our mobile phone. Sure, there are commercial off the shelf products with fancy Apps that let you control ledstrips, but that doesnt give you the satisfaction achieved by making this yourself. The solution we put together consists of a Raspberry Pi Zero and a custom PCB that takes care of the 12 volt to 5 volt power conversion for the Pi Zero and transistors for controlling the ledstrip (For more info on the hardware, see the hardware section of this post). For controlling the ledstrip via the browser we combined the pi-blaster software, a lighttpd install with php, the bootstrap framework and some php scripts. (For more info on the software, see the software section of this post)”

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