LED Arc

The Monkmakes LED Arc is a multicolour, addressable, 10-LED (SK6812) arc with pin header and ring connectors designed to work with pretty much any microcontroller that can control addressable WS2812/SK6812 LEDs, such as BBC micro:bit, Raspberry Pi Pico, Arduino, ESP32 and more.

Use the board’s ring connectors with your micro:bit, or solder on the included pin headers (or your own wires directly) to connect to your favourite dev board. Examples are provided for Raspberry Pi Pico, Arduino and ESP32.

The board features handy mounting holes for fixing the board to your project, and the signature MonkMakes lightbulb power LED (cute!).

Features

• 10 individually controllable LEDs (brightness and colour)
  • SK6812 aka WS2812/NeoPixel-compatible
• 4mm Ring connector for BBC micro:bit and Adafruit Circuit Playground boards
• Pin header pads for connecting to other microcontroller boards
  • 3-pin angled header included
• Reverse polarity protection
• Power indicator LED
• Compatible with Adafruit and other addressable LED libraries
• 3V and 5V operation

Specifications

• Maximum Supply voltage: 5.5V
• Minimum Supply voltage (heavy orange tint): 2.5 V
• Quiescent current at 5V, all LEDs off: 9mA
• Quiescent current at 3.3V, all LEDs off: 4mA
• Current draw with all LEDs max. brightness, white @3.3V Vin: 110 mA
• Current draw with all LEDs max. brightness, white @5V Vin: 340 mA

Resources

• Instructions
• GitHub
• Datasheet (includes schematic)

Package Contents

• 1x Monkmakes LED Arc
• 1x 3-pin angled header

Crocodile clips not included.