yeah. I will look over that like 10 times before powering anything up! thank you!! I don’t have the luxury of killing a controller - I won’t get another in time haha
I just have to go and jump start a tractor briefly. If you have any other recommendations I might not see them for an hour or two as I’ll have left work then and be over on site working on the project. Will talk soon 
one more little question. When it says
- == Requires FastLED - http://github.com/FastLED/FastLED at the top - does this mean I need to add that code to the bottom of a specific code file from the FastLED link or am I totally misunderstanding? Just upload that code you did, change the required parameters and it’ll work?
Since you will be using teensyduino to code and upload it to the teensy it should include the fast led library
that makes total sense! thanks Was I on point about the NUM_LEDS and NUM_STRIPS ?
That should work. I know octo code uses the entire 8 but the fast led version for teensy allows you to specify how many strips.
Go ahead and install the teensyduino software and check that code out and make sure it compiles. Note any errors.
Will do when it arrives (hopefully tomorrow!!!..) keep you in the loop. Going to grab some photos now.
That’s what 1650 leds looks like in a box.
Also gives a bit of an idea of how big it’ll be next to the bus. 5.2m x 1.4 although the LEDs will only span 4.8 x 1.2. Finally have a full day tomorrow at work to get stuck into it (that’s just 2 hours work this saturday gone) so will hopefully have some better updates tomorrow. Want to have at least all the holes drilled, mounted to the metal frame and the LEDs put in and linked up…but we will see, that may be a tad ambitious with the time I have tomorrow.
1340 of 1600 holes drilled. Still a ways to go but almost there. Will try and post some updates tomorrow…
Hey chris! I am all soldered up and ready to go…
I’m just going through our discussion here and I can’t find that GitHub link again - it’s like it’s gone missing. Trying to search my history but not having much luck…If you’re there and can re link that would be awesome
To start off I would just do a basic fast LED example sketch in to make sure the LEDs are working. Double check on connections make sure grounds are all connected and that the teensy / octo is also grounded with your data sends to the Pixels. I assume you’re aware of your Power current draw limitations and that your positive and ground wires are injected properly at locations to be under the max amp draw.
Once you verify your pixels are communicating what I would do is disconnect the pixels and test the network adapter and make sure you can ping it with that sketch I posted if you’re able to ping that adapter they were ready for the next step and that’s connecting the software to the controller and mapping the pixels and see in the magic happen
Thanks Chris. I have just opened DemoReel100 - is that a good test?
Also, I tried to compile your code before seeing you had replied and I got this error:
Arduino: 1.8.3 (Windows 10), TD: 1.37, Board: “Teensy 3.2 / 3.1, Serial, 96 MHz (overclock), Faster, US English”
C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Arduino\W5200_v2\W5200_v2.ino:49:18: fatal error: E131.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Multiple libraries were found for “Ethernet.h”
Used: C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\teensy\avr\libraries\Ethernet
Not used: C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries\Ethernet
Error compiling for board Teensy 3.2 / 3.1.
This report would have more information with
“Show verbose output during compilation”
option enabled in File -> Preferences.
I will plug some LEDs up and run that code just using the first output on the octo.
Yes there’s actually a sketch that will run the teensy octo with fastled that should be under one of the menus when I get home I’ll find out which one it is if you haven’t found it already