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Not sure if hardware questions are allowed here but I want to do a wifi ws2812 build with minimal space. I’ve seen lots of people post about the ESP8266 in here but have never used any before. My question is can I use this module with the fastled library to drive a few ws2812 and if so do I need any other supporting circuitry? And secondly can i program this with an arduino as ISP using the rst/sck/miso/mosi pins? Sorry if this is a silly question

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Forgot the link…

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The answer to the first part is yes, and there are notes specific to the ESP8266 on the FastLED wiki on Github.

I actually don’t know if you can use an Arduino as ISP to program the ESP. I’ve always just used a USB TTL Serial adaptor.

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Awesome thanks! I have a ttp adapter and can try that too

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Use the Wemos D1 mini biards ot Nodemcu boards as they have onbiard usb serial for arduino

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There are great project with built in lighting effects with wifi for ESP8266

all in box )