Been using FastLED for a while,

Been using FastLED for a while, decided last week that I wanted to make an LED lined suit, and here I am less than a week later with such a thing! I was just reading today about all the new 2.1 features, and I’m really excited to try those out because it will clean up my nasty code a bunch!

The top and bottom are controlled separately with more or less a matching pair setup: arduino uno, currently powered off a 9v, with the LEDs powered by the on board 5v (obviously Im not about to do full white full bright). I’m going to be powering with a 6600mah 3.4v LiPo each soon (theyre ws2812b, nominally 5v, from aliexpress). The top has 4 parallel data lines (though the animation is duplicated on each line in this example) and the bottom has 2. bottom is exactly 4m, top is sligtly less than 4 m. 60/m. I call this animation “rainbow seizure”

Hope to update with new animations!

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Great. What is the weight of you battery ?

@Yann_G_uth_ron 155g. Not bad imo

Ok and how much time you can blink with it non stop ?

@Yann_G_uth_ron I havent tested, but with the new 2.1 power functions, you can limit your current draw, so with a teoretical 200mah draw you could go almost 24 hours on 6600ma LiPo

this is really cool, good job! and yeah, having just switched to the new 2.1 power config, it really does two things:

  • saves your battery
  • prevents overdraw that messes up your microcontroller
    (I was seeing occasional code freezes that went away when I limited my power draw to 1 amp)