Hey everyone! I want to start a new small project and have quite some questions due to ignorance and incompetence with which I hope you could help me out! I already did a few small LED lighting projects with Arduinos, but I am still quite new to everything, I think. Therefore any advice is very much appreciated :-) I would like to use a DF Robot Beetle ESP32-C6 Mini (https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2778.html) to control a white 5V LED stripe (like this one: https://amzn.eu/d/fjpVlmg) via Zigbee, so that I can integrate it into my Home Assistant (Zigbee2MQTT). The LED stripe and all the needed electronics will be put behind a simple mirror in my bathroom, so everything needs to be very compact. The gap between the mirror and the wall is only around 7 mm (0.275 inches). The mirror is quite large, so rear surface area is plenty. Furthermore I would like to power the Beetle ESP32-C6 Mini and the LED stripe with a single USB-C cable, that will be running from a close-by usb plug to the mirror. So much for the introduction. Here are my questions / problems: 1) The Beetle ESP32-C6 Mini does not seem to have a 5V power out. So do you have an idea how I could practically fork the 5V power from the Beetle ESP32-C6 Mini's USB-C socket to the LED strip? I will only use some small pieces of the LED stripe, because the light should be quite dim, since it will only be used at night. As a result very few power will be needed. 2) Regarding the PWM dimming of the LED strip: I still have some IRL 3705N MOSFETs (https://www.infineon.com/cms/de/product/power/mosfet/n-channel/irl3705n/) lying around from my past projects. Back then I used them for dimming some white 12V LED strips. The PWM signal came from an Arduino UNO, which means that it was 5V. Now my question: do you think these MOSFETs would also work fine with the 3.3V PWM signal of the Beetle ESP32-C6 Mini and the 5V LED stripe? If not, do you have recommendations for a better fitting MOSFET? 3) Since it's been a while since I last built a PWM dimming circuit: do I need any further electronic components than one high-ohmic resistor (like 10k) at the gate of the MOSFET? That should be all for now. Many thanks in advance for your support!!
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