WS2812 led matrix panel with ESP8266 controller.

Used libs

• FastLED to send the values to the WS2812 LEDs. The XY support is based on one of the examples.
• WiFiManager to make it easy to connect it to the wifi.

Protocol

The ESP reads 16x16x3 bytes in a single UDP packet on port 5060, and sets all the pixels to the byte values.

Commands

Set all to black

head -c 768 /dev/zero | socat -t 0 - UDP:192.168.2.35:5060

Set to random colors

head -c 768 /dev/urandom | socat -t 0 - UDP:192.168.2.35:5060

Send an image, cropped square and resized to 16x16.

convert image.png -background black -resize 16x16^ -gravity center -extent 16x16 RGB:- | socat -t 0 - UDP:192.168.2.35:5060

ffmpeg \
    -re \
    -i sample.mkv -vf "crop=in_h:in_h,scale=16:16,eq=brightness=-0.2" \
    -vcodec rawvideo \
    -pix_fmt rgb24 \
    -f rawvideo \
    -r 30 \
    udp://192.168.2.35:5060

3D-printable matrix