{"id":3536,"date":"2021-09-06T14:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.com\/?postname=learning-python-w-rgb-strip-controller"},"modified":"2021-09-06T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T18:27:26","slug":"learning-python-w-rgb-strip-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/learning-python-w-rgb-strip-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Python w RGB Strip Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey everyone, been busy with work lately but had a long weekend, kind of vacation with all the storm stuff happening. Ive taken that time to pickup Python which is a funky language to be honest but a needed tool to learn especially if i want to start a career in programming. I know im a bit old to be changing careers but its my life and i want to do what makes me happy. Programming makes me happy, building and designing are the sprinkles on my life which is ice cream lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While i dont know much i learned enough about list, tuples and variable stuff along with my current knowledge of how most of these things work. I was able to create a simple serial program to communicate with a PCB im currently designing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program itself is nothing crazy.  As of now its a simple program where you enter the color and the amount on you want for the PWM. Just to control color. I dont even know what led strips i will be using yet but the main program will do for now. It doesnt even have a GUI and is all command line driven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PCB ive designed is for a simple RGB strip with no controller IC. Non addressable i think they call them. The PCB itself can be easily modified for Addressable RGB Strips though, so i&#8217;m not worried. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a quick video of the program so far and a picture of the PCB design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RGB3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JdsGftk8Je4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atomsoft.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/atompc_rgb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/atomsoft.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/atompc_rgb.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4650\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, been busy with work lately but had a long weekend, kind of vacation with all the storm stuff happening. Ive taken that time to pickup Python which is a funky language to be honest but a needed tool to learn especially if i want to start a career in programming. I know im [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/atomsofttech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}