Electronic Lavalamp

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In the 80s of the former century lavalamps were fashionable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lamp). Mesmerizing patterns of colorful lights in a bottle filled with liquid and "lava". I wondered how a modern version of this lamp would look like today?

I had an Adafruit 8x8 rectangular panel (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1487) laying around waiting for something to make from. This panel consists of a pcb with an array of 64 leds which can all have their individual color using only a single data pin on a micro controller.

Recently I stumbled over an article about a project called wled (https://install.wled.me/). It allows any cheap ESP8266 or ESP32 chip together with an arbitrary number of programmable leds to act as "light show". You can program the chip to any light pattern you like or can choose from many presets and customize to your liking. It has a nice web interface using the builtin Wifi connectivity.

Getting the WLED software on on