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Group Work

This week’s group assignment is to measure the power consumption of an output device. We decided to measure the output of a strip of NeoPixels. I set up the experiment by soldering columns of NeoPixels together and hot gluing them to cardboard. I also plugged the ground pin of the NeoPixels on the ground pin of the Seeeed, the data pin to Pin 1, and the power pin to the power pin of a power supply (of which voltage and current could be adjusted, it also lists the wattage).

For reference, here is a power supply:


Last update: December 27, 2023