First post here… Gotta say… I am loving it.
After attempting a few projects using other libraries (okay, namely Neopixel) coupled with my Arduino, I was unable to get the “pop” I had envisioned in my mind. The overhead made the otherwise not TREMENDOUSLY poorly done code look a little bit chunky and less pleasing than I’d planned.
Solution: FastLed.
Result: Wow.
Seriously guys (and gals if there are any on the dev team), y’all are awesome and there is no amount of appreciation I can throw your way.
Only hiccup has been the realization that interrupts were disabled in the library (on Arduino at least) and that was quickly remedied by a) looking into the timing requirement of the WS2811 pixels I have been using and b) biting the bullet and buying my first Teensy 3.1 (WEEEE!)
Outside of that, everything has been awesome!
One question for some future stuff…
For the eventual planned release of TLC5940 support, I understand you’ll be running into some problems with converting the math into 12bit color space… any chance there would/could be support for a RBGW color space as well? Porting all of the library functions to a 4 led configuration would understandably be a nightmare… but the 16 channel output would be paired nicely with 4 RGBW leds rather than 5.2 RGB ones…
Somewhat of a niche question but still, questioning minds…