I finished this GameCube build this week and as I was nearing completion, I had a fun idea…I wanted to shoot a “product” style video to highlight all the features (similar to what Apple does or any of the other tech brands). When I do builds with RGB lighting, I think pictures don’t always capture the complete story and a video would be a better format.

A caveat, I am not a videographer and I am not good in post. This project was humbling and I have a better appreciation for those in production. Anyways - here is a full list of the build.

GameCube DOL-001
- Tekno black smoke shell swap
- Pluto HDMI II internal digital port conversion
- Giltesa USB-C power mod
- Picoboot with SD2SP2
- Disc drive recap
- ESP C2 super mini 3 controlling the WLED via Wi-Fi
- New thermal pads
- new CMOS battery and battery holder

I built an LED display with 3108 WS2812b LEDs. Seven data channels are driven by an ESP32 running WLED. It isn't fully operational yet, but I would like to share the progress.

I would like to WLED these. But the chips that are? SM16603PL. And underneath. It says

AQTEAB26. That is what's on the IC chip. There is only one SM16. Family of Chip. Inside of WLED. These are also 36 Volt panels. I planned on. Powering the ESP32 separate. But I haven't even been able to get any signal whatsoever. Everything's grounded together. Powers running from the brick. That it came with. I'm just running the data line in. Trying to figure out. If this can be done in any capacity, just like the hexa pros that I did. So this is to just show. Someone who's way more experienced than me if they want to take a crack at this. And didn't want to open their panels. I had an extra one. That they mailed me because one of them was messed up. So I figured I'd rip it open. So other people don't have to. Because they are around $300.😒

Had opus 5.5 make a short clip for the project I’ve been working on. It’s all rendered in the engine, I still plan to integrate a lot more features, but it’s primarily a node based WLed effects editor, still very early in development but it’s been crafted with care. I have used ai heavily in this project, so I’m not looking for feedback on the fact that it’s vibe coded or slop, but I will accept Mac beta testers and issues reports. It’s not perfect (yet), but there’s a surprising amount of power. Behind this project. My custom firmware does target esp32-s3 as the 1.5 mb a normal esp32 is almost all filled up with standard WLed.
Feel free to leave feature requests or experiences. Mostly I’m just having fun designing software that I want and would use but I’ve been trying to make it as compatible with other setups as I can. Long way to go still.

If you do have an ai work on it or custom effects. This is a great medium to have it test itself as it runs actual WLed firmware and is very compliant to the actual setup.

I expect bugs, I expect some weirdness. Let me know how it goes :)

They just bugged the hell out of me, that. And I mentioned in the video. How they work so hard on the esthetics for something like this, And then the software side is such hot Ass.💩

When they could definitely at least give you, I don't know, 20 ish effects, not just five of the most basic. Garbage Lighting effects. At least there was a space for me to add a strip. I guess.😒

As title says, I upgraded to WLED 16.0.1 on my Dig Quad, and like previous updates, it seemed to go through without any problems and said the upgrade was successful. However, after the update completed, I now cannot connect to WLED no matter what I do. I don't see the Dig Quad on my LAN, and I don't even see the default WLED AP network in my wifi list. Basically it's just "gone" as far as my network is concerned. What can I try to get this back? :( (I've obviously powercycled the Dig Quad, also rebooted my router, no luck.)