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Page 1 BUCKY GLOW Instruction Manual HALFWAVE LABS...
Page 2 The data pin of a WS2811 LED strip are connected to pin A5 of the Arduino. The LEDs are connected together in the orientation shown below, with the LEDs moving up to the top of the Bucky Glow. To visualize how all the LEDs are connected, we display them using a top view of a flatten dodecahedron.
Page 3 Glow, the Bucky Glow app, and a driver for the Bucky Glow. The Bucky Glow has an Arduino Nano with CH340 USB bus convert chip, so the first thing you need to do is download the driver. Double click on the “Drivers” folder, and then choose either “Mac” or “Windows” to install the driver.
Page 4 Example programs: Halfwave Labs has several example programs for getting started with the Bucky Glow. From the zip file you downloaded from our website, open the “Arduino” folder. Open the .ino files in one of the folders and upload the program by clicking the arrow key in the Arduino IDE (there is a red arrow pointing to it in figure below).
Page 5 Halfwave Labs also provides a Bucky Glow App for making it easy to create unique illumination patterns and sequences. In order to use the app, you must upload a program onto the Bucky Glow. This program enables serial commands sent from your computer to be read by the Bucky Glow. In the “Arduino” folder, open the “buckyApp.ino”...
Page 6 Click on the color wheel to select a color, and then click on the 2D image of the Bucky Glow. Your Bucky Glow should light up with that color. Recent colors you select are displayed so that it is easy to reuse them.
Page 7 If you have a pattern you want to upload onto your Bucky Glow, click the Save button. A text file of the pattern will be saved to the file location you specify. If you just type a filename with no folder, it will be saved in the same folder as the one with the Bucky Glow App.