MatrixCraft: WLED Pixel Art

Made an LED matrix with WLED? MatrixCraft turns your phone into its sketchbook. Draw pixel art, make animations frame by frame and scroll messages, then see them on your lights straight away over your home Wi-Fi.

DRAW LIVE ON YOUR LIGHTS
Every stroke shows on the matrix as you draw. Pencil, line, box, fill, eraser and colour picker, with undo, mirror drawing and colours picked to look good on LEDs.

ANIMATE FRAME BY FRAME
Add, copy and reorder frames, see the last frame faintly while you draw the next, set the speed, and play it on your lights. Animations stream smoothly over DDP or WLED UDP realtime.

SCROLLING TEXT
Type a message, pick a pixel font, colours and speed, and send it scrolling across your matrix. Handy for birthdays, gigs, shop windows and welcome signs.

STARTER ANIMATIONS
Rainbow wave, bouncing ball and heartbeat are free, all drawn to fit your matrix exactly, and you can edit them.

SET UP IN A MINUTE
MatrixCraft finds WLED lights on your Wi-Fi, or you can type the address. It reads the LED count and the 2D size from WLED. For plain strips folded into a panel, tell it where the first LED is, whether the chain runs along rows or columns, and whether it zigzags. The test pattern shows at a glance if it is right.

YOUR LIGHTS, YOUR NETWORK
MatrixCraft talks straight to your WLED controller using WLED's own JSON and realtime interfaces. No account, no cloud, no extra firmware. It works with ESP8266 and ESP32 controllers running WLED 0.13 or later.

MATRIXCRAFT PRO
One payment, yours for life, on every set of lights you own:
• Save to your lights: keep pictures and animations on the controller as WLED presets, so they play with your phone switched off
• Import GIFs and pictures, shrunk to your matrix frame by frame
• Shows: loop your animations and messages, each for as long as you like
• All starter animations: fire, plasma, digital rain, starfield, radar, fireworks, snow, spiral and equaliser
• Matrices up to 64 x 64 (4,096 LEDs); free covers up to 256 LEDs, such as 16 x 16 or 32 x 8
• Animations up to 120 frames; free animations have up to 8
• Rainbow and gradient text, outlines, and saving text as an animation
• Share animations as GIFs

You need a WLED controller and LED matrix of your own. WLED is free, open source firmware by the WLED project; MatrixCraft is an independent app and is not made by the WLED project.

Questions or ideas: support@zarkon.co.uk

Recent changes:
Fixes the Pro unlock store connection.