How To Use A Raspberry Pi Pico W To Control RGB Lights Across The World
NeoPixels are “candy” for makers. These bright, easily =-controllable RGB LEDs power signs, light shows and holiday decorations across the world. We’ve used NeoPixels with Python to make a Simon game, Node-RED and even BASIC.
We can control NeoPixels using Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Raspberry Pi Pico W (plus many more boards) and in this how to we will use CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico W. CircuitPython has a ready to go CircuitPython module that we can use to get up and running with very little code.
Our goal for this project is to create a holiday themed decoration which uses NeoPixels. How we control it is via the Cheerlights API. Cheerlights is a global network of synchronized lights. Sending a tweet to @cheerlights containing one of the supported colors will trigger our project to change color, but better than that, it changes the color of every Cheerlight across the globe.
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