Raspberry Pi 4 – Blinking patterns of green ACT LED

On a Raspberry Pi 4, the green “ACT” LED indicates boot errors using certain blinking patterns. The following table shows what the different patterns mean (source of the table is the official documentation). Hint: In case your LED does not flash, or turns completely of after some flickering, your EEPROM bootloader might be corrupt. InContinue reading “Raspberry Pi 4 – Blinking patterns of green ACT LED”

WS2812B vs. WS28123 – Determine the type of LED strips

There are many different types of LED strips out there. What type do you have? This post gives you hints on how to determine this. LED types These are the types of SMD LED components that you might find on LED strips: 3528: single color, non-addressable, very low power 2835: single color, newer than 3528,Continue reading “WS2812B vs. WS28123 – Determine the type of LED strips”