Has anybody successfully shown a representation of what a certain strip of LEDs is showing on it on a TFT display? It’d be cool to build an LED controller with a TFT display that shows exactly what the pattern will be doing before it’s shown on the strip. Like a menu with all the available patterns shown at the same time but only a specific one is selected and displayed at a time.
Did you see this post?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChristophWempe/posts/JuDi1217Y5n
@Jeremy_Spencer I did not, but that’s cool! I like the icons that represent the patterns. I’m thinking of icons that are moving in real time with the pattern as it’s shown on the strip.
All of the icons moving, or just the pattern currently on the strip?
Be a great project for you to work on. Perhaps use a raspberry pi to do the UI and tft and then have it interface the mcu(s) to handle the pixel controls. Having the MCU do everything will be challenging and very selective because many MCU capable running fastled do not have the CPU and or memory to handle both efficiently at the same time.
I’d love to do this on a smartphone app. In that case, though, it would require replicating all of the FastLED logic in the app, which can get messy / hard to scale.
Hi , I think this one could be useful for your project : https://hackaday.io/project/432-ledstrip-browser-simulator
If I understand correctly you want to display on tft actuall led animation before presenting it to strip…