Wixel-32 Pre-Order - Group Buy Is Live!

[Andrew Lee]

G'day, Dan.
How is this progressing. ?

 

[danv]

Update time (finally): I have added reverse polarity protection on the supply input and tested the power supply. I have sent version 0.2 to the groupbuy organizers (Seeedstudio). I will provide a link soon. Pricing is going to be approx 75 to 100 I would say at a guesstimate.

 

[danv]

 

[danv]

I was just notified that this groupbuy is going through final approvals with Seeedstudio.

As soon as it goes live I will post the link here for you all.

 

[danv]

Fingers crossed the group buy go's live today guys.
The only requirement to make it happen is that at least 10 units need to be pre-ordered within the 30-day group buy period.

 

[danv]

Group Buy is now live! We have 30 days to get a minimum of 10 units pre-ordered.

Link here guys (also added to first post)

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Wixel-32-0-2-p-4929.html

 

[danv]

It is for a fully populated board, kicad wouldnt export the 3d models properly when it did a "3d" render.

All you would do is load ESPixelStick firmware (or even wled) and away you go.

 

[danv]

Firmware loads onto the esp32 module via a usb cable.

 

[danv]

I will be creating a firmware load guide shortly for anyone who isnt familiar with ESPixelStick firmware.

 

[darylc]

what sort of quantity would it take to drive the price down?

 

[danv]

Hmm I actually am not 100% certain. Seeedstudio didn't really give me a breakdown of cost in large qty's. I dont have the time at present to do an assembly run as workload has picked up, so I thought I would try out their group buy service.

 

[TRAVISTY]

Count me out also. Too many dollars for too little. Time to dust of Altium software

 

[danv]

Yeah OK fair enough. Unsure if I can modify that too much but I can look at it. I guess it comes down to me not having time to do it myself and having an assembly house do it for me.

 

[danv]

Count me out also. Too many dollars for too little. Time to dust of Altium software

Altium is good, if you use it enough to cover the cost of a licence each year.

 

[Notenoughlights]

I really like the idea, though yes the price is a little steep, I'm a bit confused however, you may correct me if I'm very wrong here, but does WLED or ESPixelstick firmware contain SD card support to play a .fseq file? I've never seen it myself, unless it's been disabled due to no SD card being in the devices I've used.