Check out the newest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Get WLED running on your MatrixPortal board and control an LED matrix with no coding. This is a really cool project — we’ve been wanting to see WLED’s amazing 2d animation effects on a high resolution matrix display for ages. As an extra bonus, we’ve gotten it working with the MoonModules fork of WLED which also includes a whole array of new 2d animations from Animartrix. The kaleidoscope animations are blowing our minds!

This project was inspired by Living Stained Glass as seen at the Autumn Lights Festival in Oakland, CA.

From the guide:

Make a glowing stained glass window with over 2000 LEDs that animate and glow in hundreds of different patterns and colors, all without writing a line of code. The magic lies with WLED, a free, open-source LED animation program that runs over WiFi. Control your LED matrix with your smart phone or web browser, and watch your creation dance.

This guide uses the MoonModules v 14.5.0 beta (“Small Step”) fork of WLED, which works on the MatrixPortal S3. As a bonus, it also contains the Animartrix library of effects — a large pool of brand-new 2d animations that turn your LED matrix into a whirling kaleidoscope of color.

Use a laser cutter or a Cricut vinyl cutter to create a “resist” layer out of opaque material, and a black LED acrylic layer for diffusion, to make a beautiful stained glass window style art piece that shifts and moves with colored lights.

Full tutorial here: https://learn.adafruit.com/matrix-portal-stained-glass-with-wled/