Description
This board makes it super easy to add addressable LEDs and USB-C power to your project. It's optimized for use with the Pixelblaze Pico LED controller and Pebble-style LEDs, but can be used with any controller and any 3-pin 5V addressable LED strip, strand, or PCB object!
Full guide for how to wire everything up!
The Pebbly Buddy 3 comes with the USB-C connector and CC resistors pre-soldered and a bunch of optional connectors & one pigtail (cable) so that you can choose the best way to wire everything up for your project.
You can attach an LED controller in a variety of ways:
- Solder a Pixelblaze Pico controller directly to the back of the Buddy with the 4 castellated edge pads
- Solder the 0.1" right angle headers to both the Pixelblaze Pico and the Pebble 3 Buddy to have a connectorized solution, and easily swap Pixelblazes between projects
- Solder wires to the through-holes and use any LED controller
- Solder a vertical header to the Pebbly 3 Buddy and plug it into a breadboard
You can attach the LEDs in a variety of ways too!
- Solder a Pebble-style strand directly to the pads
- Solder the JST connector and use the pigtail (cable) to wire up any 3-pin LED strip or object