FastLED VS Striptease

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.

BTW, if you're using a Teensy 4.x you might be interested in my project.

I'm not aware of any general significance of DrawOneFrame functions. They don't invoke any particular FastLED behaviour. For projects where a variety of different effects can be presented, the author may choose to use C++ classes to provide a standard interface to initialise and display those effects. In my WavyDots sketch, that function name is a vestige of such a choice. The Aurora project does something similar. So does the Striptease project, but there the DrawOneFrame function is simply called loop.

Have you ever come across my project? Perhaps you might find some interesting ideas to borrow.

Hi, I faced the same problem in my project.

In my project I did something similar and created abstractions for composing virtual strips by joining, extracting a portion or reversing other virtual or physical strips. Have a look at the Strip API.

That's what I'm using in my project based on Teensy 4.1 + Audio shield for driving 6 channels in non-blocking mode and it works great!

I'm using it in my project for driving 6 channels (Teensy 4.x) without any problems.

If you plan to use the Audio shield in your project (as I do on mine), then two Serial ports won't be available (pins 8 and 20), leaving you with 3 and 6 serial ports available on standard pins.

I have developed a library/framework for this, and it allows decoupling the physical layout of your strips (up to six) from the logical layout.

Hi, have a look at my project. It's a library/framework for Teensy 4.x + Audio Shield.