Have the FastLED authors considered a simulation controller that would allow projects to be

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Also in my mind Type 1 is an emulator and Type 2 is a simulator but I’m not sure I have the nomenclature correct.

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OK I saw the FastLED reorg and this reminded me. Here is it comilng on x86. I need to add some actuall LED graphics display but you get the idea. https://github.com/garthy/FastLED/tree/FastLED3.1

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i found this and it might help the “simulation” case. you still have to upload code to the actual hardware, but you dont have to carry LED strips with you.

https://plus.google.com/b/103366228489029054614/+MarcMillerTime/posts/EqtaXt8DPGw?pageId=103366228489029054614

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Would be porting to MIT Processing an option? For sure not good for timing and real light effects, as a LCD computer monitor differs from LEDs, but for basic function tests. Or …the second step: controlling a real LED stripe from processing via serial, firmata. (with low refresh rate)
What is slowing down my experiments: the flashing cycle and the lack of debugging tools.

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I don’t think porting to processing would be an option - processing is nominally Java based and FastLED and its libraries make fairly heavy use of C++ templates and operator overloading.

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yes you are right. My idea came from processing -> arduino …but yes it is java. strange, that it was not present for me.