I'm Connor Nishijima, and I run @lixielabs out of my home!

What is Lixie Labs?

Since 2016, I've been developing the most colorful, chainable displays for Arduino, such as Lixie and Pixie! Along with that, I've taught old Arduinos new tricks without external help, such as giving an Uno analog audio, motion detection or giving an ESP8266 the ability to text you alerts!

What I Do To Eat

Pixie / Pixie Pro / Pixie Chroma

With an easy to use Arduino library, Pixie allows you to quickly control up to a few dozen chained displays with only 2 GPIO on your Arduino / ESP8266 / ESP32/ SAMD! This means that showing the time, a stock price, a notification - or any bitmap data you can throw at it - is quick and easy!

Lixie / Lixie II

Lixie II is based on WS2812B LEDs, (or "Neopixels" Adafruit calls them) meaning it can display the following in any color:

• Date / Time
• Temperature / Humidity
• Website Views
• YouTube Views
• Tindie Sales
• Or any number in any Arduino Project!

What I Do For Fun

Outside of commercial work, I enjoy pushing Arduino and our other gear to it's limits and seeing just what is possible with the little amount of stuff I actually have:

$150 Pick and Place Machine (Click for Video)

NES Music emulated on ESP32 (Click for Video)

Super Arduino Bros. / Polyphonic tone() (Click for Video)

What I Want For The Future

I want to continue providing to the Open Source community. However, being fully open source has drawbacks, one of which is that I have to constantly innovate to keep up with competition and clones in the market. This both time consuming and expensive. Let's take a raw look at Lixie Labs:

That's it! There's a toaster oven to the left, but that's pretty much it. It's the living room of a 1-bedroom place, with the kitchen behind me. Unfortunately, when you have to compete with large companies or overseas factories, this is all a moderately successful Tindie shop can give you without some major luck! However, I'm extremely grateful to have made it this far, and sponsorships via this page help to cover costs like server maintenance, shipping accounts, and utilities like internet. Any sponsorships help Lixie Labs to remain a full time business, and come with some sweet perks!

Perks!

What a weird word. Perks. Let's get perky.

Some of the things included on the right when you sponsor Lixie Labs for as little as $1 a month include:

Monthly Lixie Labs Livestreams

Once every month, I'll host a private livestream for my sponsors where I detail every cool Arduino/C++/small business hack I'd discovered that month, and release any relevant source code of those projects to sponsors

Advertising on Your Behalf

Your logo and name can appear on our popular repo's README docs under a "Sponsors" section, along with any one [Safe For Work] link you'd like! Like traditional sponsorships, I want this to be a symbiotic relationship! Plug your work!

Twitter Shoutouts

Same as above, but for our one-time Sponsors! We will shout out your name, logo, and one safe-for-work link of your choice, to our 1,800+ Twitter followers that consists almost exclusively of OSHW / Arduino / Tindie fans! Feel free to take a look here: @lixielabs

"Sponsorware" repository!

I'll be dropping open-source tools I create for things internal to Lixie Labs, such as inventory tracking tools, or Tindie order PDF generators. I'll also be sharing the Blender files/nodes for things like our promotional ads!