Adalight-FastLED VS FastLED

Software and Hardware used: I am using Adalight Fastled (https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED) with a WS2812B strip.

Run Adalight with Prismatik.

The sketch I used for the DIY Ambilight can be found here: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED/blob/master/Arduino/LEDstream_FastLED/LEDstream_FastLED.ino

Use this code instead. Define the LED type, data, and clock pins at the top.

Of course, here it is: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED

I have uploaded a sketch Adalight-FastLED to an Arduino Mega. The following description is the requirement for my c# app that is using a slightly modified Ardity to send byte[] instead of strings to the Arduino.

another warning: the off the shelf kits come with a relatively low baked-in baudrate (115200, but confirm with your seller), this might limit your LED framerate, read this, so don't set your software to 360-noscope-fps capture right away... so either you are fine with what you'll get and you leave it at that or you want a higher rate, in which case you'll need to flash it with any other arduino ambilight sketch (such as this) with values that work for your board (any arduino ambilight tutorial on the subject will do)

I used this: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED If you need any further help, dm me. I'm electrician, so I didn't need to learn how the electronics work.

I used the examples from here https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Multiple-Controller-Examples

Sweet. Then pretty much any arduino or other microcontroller would take care of what you need. The strips only take one output pin plus power and ground so just about everything will work for driving them. They act like a long shift register so the single pin is all that's needed to load the full strip with whatever patterns you want regardless of the length. You just have to tell it how many LEDs there are in total is all. Check out the FastLED library. You can learn more about it there and/or install the library in the IDE by pressing "ctrl shift I" for windows or "command shift I" for mac and search for it in the upper search area and install it right there. It comes with working examples too so all you would have to do is install the library, load one of the new example sketches that came with it, and probably edit the example to change the NUM_LEDS count to match what you're working with.