Any chance of FastSPI support for the LPD1886 led strip? One chip per led, 4096 brightness levels, 42 leds per m.
I found it at greeled.
The library does not support the lpd1886 … yet.
As you point out, the lpd1886 is a 12-bit-per-channel (4096 level per channel) device, and at this time the library only has support for 8-bit (or less … I’m looking at you, Mr. 7-bit LPD8806) devices.
We’re planning on adding support for deeper bit depth devices in the future, but there’s no official timeline. We may add “8-bit-compatible” support first, allowing these strips to work, but only driving them with 8 bits per channel. But eventually, we definitely want to support bit depths of 10, 12, 14, and 16 bits per channel. At this point, we’re calling all of that “16-bit support”, as there will probably be two bytes per channel in memory for each pixel.
So: not today, but yes we plan to support it someday, along with other devices with bit depth greater than 8 bits per channel.
ok, thanks for the information.
btw, is your simplified HSV code already available or will it be part of RC3?
That’ll be in RC3, which we’re getting out as soon as we can so that people can get at the new code ASAP.
LPD1886 is not in the current builds.
We’re trying to get “2.0” out the door ASAP so people have a new solid and reliable base to build on. Once that’s released, we’re definitely going to look into more chipsets etc.