Cheerlights on an ESP8266 LED Wifi Controller

CheerLights is an “Internet of Things” project created by Hans Scharler where people volunteer to synchronise their lights all across the world to one colour. In a truly democratic fashion, the colour changes by anyone sending a tweet with a colour #cheerlights. Check out twitter to see it live: #cheerlights. I wanted to do something with the cheap esp8266 controllers you can get to control 3528 LED strips - it’s a ready built package with the voltage converter, ESP-12S processor and the MOSFETs necessary to switch 12V on the LED strips from the ESP 3. [Read More]