This is to demo using serial communication & introduce the ESP8266 Wifi library. We will scan wifi & connect as an client. Then will control "NeoPixel" LED using FastLed library https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED. Please use the cpp and platformio.ini files found in the subdirs. We will be using the PIO library manager to install FastLED.
- PIO lession 2 is the WiFi example
- PIO lession 3 is the APA106 LED example
LED with integrated control circuit used in second part of example, see datasheet linked below
https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Components/LED/COM-12877.pdf
Connection to APA106 "neopixel" LED , Don’t reverse polarity LED will explode!!