In this video, I connect an 8x8 Neopixel Panel to the esp8266 on a NodeMCU dev board. Lots of fun making blinking lights and shapes.<br />The 8x8 panel is driven from a single IO pin - making it easy to adding to projects. They are also quite widely available.<br /><br />This is part of my video series having fun with the esp8266.<br />Rest of the Orionrobots esp8266 series: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxP0FUTG0Fm4TeORqiYne44PhnMHKMDG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxP0FUTG0Fm4TeORqiYne44PhnMHKMDG</a><br />Previous Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/YbCKPT93_w4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/YbCKPT93_w4</a> - Ws2812 Neopixel Led Strip With Esp 8266 And Nodemcu <br />Next Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/ZYZelug2SW0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/ZYZelug2SW0</a> - Building an ESP Rover Robot<br /><br />Links for more information on the stuff in the video<br />* My code: <a href="https://github.com/orionrobots/esp8266_video_series/tree/master/ws2812" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/orionrobots/esp8266_video_series/tree/master/ws2812</a><br />* Esplorer UI: <a href="http://esp8266.ru/esplorer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://esp8266.ru/esplorer/</a> <br />* Lolin/Esp8266 Dev Board - Search for NodeMCU board<br />* WS2812 Lights - Search ws2812 strips<br />* WS2812 datasheet: <a href="https://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812.pdf</a><br />* Node API ref <a href="https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/wiki/nodemcu_api_en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware/wiki/nodemcu_api_en</a><br /><br />This is purely for fun and exploration. This is not a paid placement for any products.<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k98oBxk7QA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k98oBxk7QA</a>