Pico_WS2812 vs Pico-DMX

Pico_WS2812

Simple WS2812 LED library for the Raspberry Pi Pico in C++ (by ForsakenNGS)

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Pico-DMX

A library for inputting and outputting the DMX512-A lighting control protocol from a Raspberry Pi Pico (by jostlowe)

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Pico_WS2812		Pico-DMX
	Project
2	Mentions	1
16	Stars	170
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	12 months ago
C++	Language	C++
-	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Pico_WS2812

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pico_WS2812. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-18.

struggle to control single WS2812 leds
1 project | /r/raspberrypipico | 18 Jun 2023
Properly creating libraries for use with CMake and C++
2 projects | /r/raspberrypipico | 18 Mar 2021

For example, I'm working on a led library to address WS2812b LEDs more comfortably. (See https://github.com/ForsakenNGS/Pico_WS2812 ) As you can see in the "getting started" section of the readme in the current state it requires manually copying over files and extending the "CMakeLists.txt" in multiple places.

Pico-DMX

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pico-DMX. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.

How to get DMX into a raspberry pi or arduino as an input
2 projects | /r/lightingdesign | 8 Jun 2021

Here's a shameless plug of an Arduino library i wrote which can receive (and send) DMX on a Raspberry Pi Pico, if you want to use it: https://github.com/jostlowe/Pico-DMX

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Pico_WS2812 and Pico-DMX you can also consider the following projects:

Adalight-FastLED - Adalight with FastLED support

ESP8266_ArtNetNode_v2 - ESP8266 based WiFi ArtNet to DMX, RDM and LED Pixels

Arduino-FastLED-Music-Visualizer - An Arduino based music visualizer using the FastLED library and a strip of individually addressable LEDs

DMXSerial - An Arduino library for sending and receiving DMX packets.

HyperHDR - Highly optimized open source ambient lighting implementation based on modern digital video and audio stream analysis for Windows, macOS and Linux (x86 and Raspberry Pi / ARM).

picotetris - Tetris on a Raspberry Pi Pico mounted on a Pimoroni Pico Explorer

ESP-Dmx - A library to use the ESP8266 as a DMX controller

wasm3_dino_rpi_pico - WebAssembly Dino game for PPi Pico

captouch_joystick - USB Joystick Device with Capacitive Touch Inputs using Raspberry Pi Pico and Arduino

4kkeyboard - Keyboard for Friday Night Funkin and other 4K games