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ESP-NPXL breakout board for ESP8266

ESP_NPXL breakout board

This is a breakout board for the ESP-12E (ESP8266 chip).

It is specifically designed to drive neopixel (WS2812) strips. It supports a 5V Powersupply connected to a barrel jack, and uses this voltage to drive the neopixels directly. 3.3V for the ESP-12E chip is derived by a voltage regulator. The 3.3V logic signals for talking to the neopixels are translated to 5V signals with a 74HCT125T14 level shifter and are exposed with seperate headers to connect neopixels directly.

BOM

Here is a partslist with links to shops where I bought the parts. Unfortunately one of them is no longer existing. If you have a proposition let me know...

Contributing

Feel free contributing or doing whatever with this design. As board design is only a hobby of mine it's probably not a good design anyway ;)