How difficult would it be to get FastLED working with this board? Anyone have any thoughts on the board itself? I’m thinking it would make for a really nice audio analyzer and LED driver with the amount of processing power available.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1771382379/fireduino-dual-core-arduino-board-more-powerful-an/description
I guess if it’s based directly on the uno, then it should work out of the box.
This is my guess, too. If it acts like an Uno [plus other stuff glommed on], then its probably easy to run FastLED on that part of it, at least. Beyond that, all bets are off.
But the more I look at it, the less it looks like an actual Uno-plus-other-stuff – and more like a completely new board. In that case, I’d say you’re in unknown territory here. It might “just work”, and it might not work at all, and since it’s so new, we probably won’t prioritize it as a supported platform for a while.
However, FastLED is Open Source! You’re welcome to dig in and see if you can get the port working yourself! This is something that we can’t really offer much help with, since it’s so far off the beaten path, but it’s doable. If you’ve previously ported other embedded C++/assembly-language libraries that directly manipulate hardware registers, etc from one hardware platform to another, then porting FastLED isn’t too much worse than ‘the usual’! But if you’ve never done that before, porting FastLED to a new platform is not a good first project, IMHO.
@Mark_Kriegsman thanks for the replies. For the $15 asking price I will take the bait and check it out. If it doesn’t end up working with FastLED I’m sure I can find other uses for it.
The backlog of other hardware platforms that will definitely see more use (nrf52, esp32, the k65 (basis for next round of teensy boards), etc…) is long enough that I’m unlikely to throw in the work for a chipset that so far has only shown up on one kickstarter and doesn’t appear to be getting used in other boards.