Are there any articles out there that can help me create my own FastLED lighting functions? I recently built this floating shelf with a built in light bar on the bottom and I have my Arduino Uno mounted on the inside, it’s controlling a strip of 59 leds. I have the basic FastLED functions working (at least the few that I uploaded to it to test), but I’m trying to accomplish an effect that looks like a spotlight in the middle (only one color, like green for example) but fades out on the sides and then also sort of slowly pulses brighter/darker. Is there something made like that already?
You will need to create that custom effect yourself. The slow pulsing could be done with a trig function, sin8(x).
Also here’s a “breathing” effect that you might find interesting and could be further modified into the effect you want.
Break the effect down into parts to start with and experiment a bunch.
Also, to make things simpler you can get things looking the way you want on just half the strip and then mirror (copy) the data to the other half of the strip.
That is a good way to look at it, I could definitely get some sort of pulse thing working that goes from “bottom to top” for half of my strip and then just flip it so it pulses from the middle.
Lots of things to think about now, thanks for the help 