esphome_drbubushat

A colorful game for a PhD hat using the M5stack Atom Echo, 8Angle potentiometers, and an addressable LED strip powered through ESPHome. It is easy to build and requires only minimal soldering! The purpose of the game is to match random colors with their respective positions on a rainbow.

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Components

• M5stack Atom Echo
• M5stack 8Angle
• Seeed Grove - WS2813 RGB LED Stripe, waterproof - 30 LED/m

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Building It

1. Connect the 8Angle potentiometer to the Atom Echo using the Grove connector.

2. Solder the LED strip's wires to a pin header that can be attached to the Atom's GPIOs as follows:

   LED Strip Pin	Atom Pin
   Gnd	G
   Vcc	5V
   Data	G25

3. Build and flash the ESPHome firmware using the following command:

   esphome run drbubushat.yaml