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One of the few comments under aprevious video asked for an explanation on how to use an external library in an Arduino-project under PlatformIO. Here I show the example of the FastLED library to control neopixel LED-chips.
This video is unsponsored and not monetized, as usual.
00:35 looking at the circuit boards
01:10 the layout in KiCAD
02:40 soldering connection pins
04:00 connecting the board to an Arduino
04:35 creating a new project in PlatformIO
06:00 picking a library within PlatformIO
10:18 success: a blinking LED
circuit boards made by www.pcbgogo.com/
- 1.0 mm thick
- green solder mask, white silkscreen
- lead-free HASL
- castellated edge-contacts
other tools used:
TS-100 solder iron
Felder Iso-Core Clean Sn100Ni+ solder wire 0.5 mm
Arduino nano (clone), ATmega328 16 MHz, 5V
Software used:
KiCAD PCB layout www.kicad.org/
QCAD general 2D design www.qcad.org/en/
VS Code code.visualstudio.com/
PlatformIO plugin platformio.org/
FastLED fastled.io