So my daughter got a play kitchen for Christmas last year.
Now, being a blinky enthusiast, there's no way I could leave it as the plain kitchen straight from KMart (https://www.kmart.com.au/product/wooden-retro-kitchen-43029112/)
The end result:
Oven- 2 rows of 8 pixels horizontally across the roof
Microwave - 20 pixels arranged in a rectangle around the door, facing inwards - 6 across the top and bottom, 4 up and down the sides
Fridge - U-shaped pixels on the roof, 6-7-6 formation
FPP 6.3 running on an old Raspberry Pi 1B+ - No hats/capes - everything wired direct to the Pi.
rpiws281x driver being used (so no onboard sound).
USB sound card, a little 0.5V amplifier, and a 40mm mylar speaker in the enclosure.
5x GPIOs connected to three door switches and two push buttons.
A single 'null' pixel inside the control box acting as a level shifter to the first run of pixels.
All done with 5V, 30/m strip.
One CAT5 to each appliance - which uses the pairs as follows:
The GPIOs trigger Command Presets that start and stop effect sequences for everything except the Microwave button. This is done triggering a playlist that has a full fseq & MP3 to give the microwave sound effects.
Now, being a blinky enthusiast, there's no way I could leave it as the plain kitchen straight from KMart (https://www.kmart.com.au/product/wooden-retro-kitchen-43029112/)
The end result:
Oven- 2 rows of 8 pixels horizontally across the roof
Microwave - 20 pixels arranged in a rectangle around the door, facing inwards - 6 across the top and bottom, 4 up and down the sides
Fridge - U-shaped pixels on the roof, 6-7-6 formation
FPP 6.3 running on an old Raspberry Pi 1B+ - No hats/capes - everything wired direct to the Pi.
rpiws281x driver being used (so no onboard sound).
USB sound card, a little 0.5V amplifier, and a 40mm mylar speaker in the enclosure.
5x GPIOs connected to three door switches and two push buttons.
A single 'null' pixel inside the control box acting as a level shifter to the first run of pixels.
All done with 5V, 30/m strip.
One CAT5 to each appliance - which uses the pairs as follows:
- Orange - 5V/Ground
- Green - Data In, Data Out
- Blue - Push Button
- Brown - Door Switch
The GPIOs trigger Command Presets that start and stop effect sequences for everything except the Microwave button. This is done triggering a playlist that has a full fseq & MP3 to give the microwave sound effects.