Maniacal Labs
Our vision, news and ideas, and whatever feels important.
Follow us on
Twitter,
Facebook,
and Instagram
-
LongPixel Demo: Variable Color Temperature Light
-
AllPixel Now Available on Tindie
-
More AllPixel Distributors
-
AllPixel Now Available!
-
AllPixel Soon Available to Public
-
First Production AllPixel Boards!
-
Multi-Driver Demo with BiblioPixel
-
Exciting Updates!
-
New Site! New Forum! Kickstarter Progress!
-
More Fun With the AllPixel and TinyTiM
The LongPixel was designed to make using analog LED strips super easy and, typically, that means RGB LEDs as they are the most common. But the beauty of the way in which the LongPixel drives these LED strips is that it really doesn’t matter what color the LEDs are. Sure, the 4 wire, 3 color RGB strips are the most convenient in most cases. But you could, for example, connect 3 single color, 2 wire, strips, of whatever color you desired.
Read more…We are pleased to announce that the AllPixel and PowerTap are now available for purchase on Tindie! Tindie Logo All orders through Tindie ship direct from Maniacal Labs HQ in North Carolina, USA. We will ship outside of the USA, but be sure to check out all of our other global distributors first to see if there’s one near you!
Read more…One of the major things we’ve been hard at work on lately is getting AllPixel kits a little closer to those who want them and either missed the Kickstarter or want more. So far, the AllPixel and PowerTap are available from these great distributors near (some of) you: Australia TronixLabs Little Bird Electronics Pakronics New Zealand NiceGear United Kingdom DigitalMeans For those outside of the above regions, fear not; you can always still order direct from Seeed and they will ship worldwide.
Read more…Good news! The AllPixel and PowerTap are now available for general sale on the Maniacal Labs Seeed Store! KermitFlail For those that missed the Kickstarter or just want more, this means that you can order RIGHT NOW!
Read more…MainKSThumb It’s been a long, long journey bringing the AllPixel to fruition and it is finally coming to the end… But now the real fun begins as the AllPixel finds its way into the hands of LED hackers and hobbyists!
Read more…First AllPixel Boards Look what just showed up in our inbox from Seeed Studio! Yup… Production AllPixel boards! :) A handful of these are on their way to Maniacal Labs headquarters, where they will be checked over to confirm they meet our standards and then we will give Seeed the go-ahead to finish producing the rest of the boards.
Read more…Last time on the Maniacal Labs Blog… we told you about the awesome new multiple driver support added to BiblioPixel in the latest version. Well, check out the video below to see the proof! All the code from the video is below. More details are on the BiblioPixel Wiki. And be sure to visit the Maniacal Labs Forum to discuss usage or ask questions. Happy making! #Load driver for your hardware, visualizer just for example import time import bibliopixel.
Read more…It’s been a little over a month since the Kickstarter for our AllPixel finished and things are progressing nicely. We’ve certainly learned a lot about communicating with an overseas manufacturer and designing a product for mass production. Nothing a few tiny tweaks couldn’t fix. Our goal has always been to deliver the best possible product. The final boards should be going into production within the next week or two! During the campaign, we set a stretch goal of providing multiple driver support to BiblioPixel.
Read more…It is a bit crazy to see how far we’ve come since Maniacal Labs started by launching the Binary Epoch Clock back in 2013. Well, unlike the quick success we’ve had with the AllPixel, we just recently sold out of the Epoch Clock kits. But that allowed us to do something we’ve wanted to for some time now… ditch our web store and redesign the site. So we hope you like the new, cleaner design!
Read more…As a follow-on to our previous article on the TiM and TinyTiM displays from WyoLum, I wanted to demonstrate some of the flexibility of the AllPixel in terms of how well it can pair with already existing products. The TinyTim is an as-yet-unreleased product from WyoLum, but it will be dropping soon. It’s really a slick board, consisting of 64 WS2812 LEDs arranged in an 8x8 grid. There are plenty of connections on the back of the PCB to easily wire together multiple displays, in either parallel or serial data transfer configurations.
Read more…