Find a Retailer SHOP PRODUCT MENU BLOG 0 SUPPORT find products, tutorials, etc... HOME / P R O D U C T C A T E G O R I E S LEARN LOG IN EDUCATION Need Help? REGISTER FORUM / LUMENATI / S P A R K F U N L U M E N A T I 8 - S T I C K SparkFun Lumenati 8-stick COM-14359 DESCRIPTION FEATURES DOCUMENTS The SparkFun Lumenati 8-stick is a small board equipped with eight APA102C LEDs in a row and two mounting positions, that has been designed to give your projects an edge in their lighting capacity. The 8-stick board has been specifically designed to be daisy-chained with other Lumenati boards, thanks to the castellated edge connectors at each end allowing for multiple design options and formations. Additionally, we have labeled the APA102C LEDs on each board with numbers indicating their position in the sequence to help you write code more easily. We especially love using the Lumenati boards to give our flying race drones a bit of style and panache. The Lumenati 8-stick can also be combined with the 90R and 90L boards to create outlines of different shapes and sizes. The APA102C addressable LEDs operate on +5V power input, as well as 0-5V logic levels for clock and data, and employ a 2-wire communication protocol consisting of a clock line and a data line. While this requires one more wire than standard WS2812B LEDs, the advantage is that the communication with the LEDs becomes somewhat timing-independent, allowing you to run these directly off of a Raspberry Pi or other single-board computer that doesn't normally allow for a long, precisely timed data stream without the use of additional hardware. images are CC BY 2.0 Note: There are two solder jumpers on the back of the 8-stick labeled CO and DO (clock out and data out) that can be cut to interrupt those signals in case you make a closed-loop design where you don't want the clock and data from your last LED to interfere with the clock and data to your first. It is critical that you cut the traces in the jumpers of the last board in the loop before you power up your LEDs if you've put together a continuous loop of Lumenati boards. Otherwise, it is likely that you'll burn out a couple of LEDs. SHARE GET STARTED WITH THE SPARKFUN LUMENATI GUIDE Tags ADDRESSABLE APA102 CASTELLATED COMPONENT SparkFun Lumenati 8-stick Product Help and Resources TUTORIALS VIDEOS SKILLS NEEDED How to Solder - Castellated Mounting Holes Lumenati Alien Garden Lumenati Hookup Guide NOVEMBER 3, 2017 OCTOBER 12, 2017 Use Lumenati LED boards to add glow to your own alien garden. Lumenati is our line of APA102cbased addressable LED boards. We'll show you how to bring the sparkle to your projects! MAY 12, 2015 Tutorial showing how to solder castellated holes (or castellations). This might come in handy if you need to solder a module or PCB to another PCB. These castellations are becoming LED LUMENATI RGB popular with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth modules. COMMENTS 3 REVIEWS 0 Customer Comments Log in or register to post comments. mctom987 / about 5 months ago / 1 Assuming an adequate supply, how many of these could one chain together before addressing or current becomes a problem? Is it possible to multi-tap the 5v to reduce board-board current? Looking to run a long line, about 7 feet (maybe 18 of these 8-strips), of these. The 2-wire/Pi compatibility and 5v make this much preferable to commonly available 1-wire 12v LED strips. mctom987 / about 5 months ago / Note to self: Learn to RTFM 1 2000 pixel max, so 250 of these boards ~ 120 feet. Addressing won't be a problem. Multi-tapping is possible, and even recommended (based on COM-14016 datasheet) for long runs. 5V 70A supply is good for 1200 pixels, so 18 * 8 = 144 pixels. Using a 5V 20A supply should be no problem. Chiel / about 5 months ago / 1 Nice to see some APA102 products as alternatives to WS2813. I like my WS2813 leds, but they can be annoying to control by anything but microcontrollers and are kind of slow (the more leds the lower the amount of updates per seconds you can push through). APA102 are a nice alternative to them. What really helps is that they are supported by the fastled library. So any project that uses Fastled for controlling can be converted to use APAs with just a few lines of code. START SOMETHING. SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER In 2003, CU student Nate Seidle blew a power supply in his dorm room and, in lieu of a way to order easy replacements, decided to start his own company. Since then, SparkFun has been committed to sustainably helping our world achieve electronics literacy from our headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. No matter your vision, SparkFun's products and resources are designed to make the world of electronics more accessible. 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