I have a question about running the same animation on four separate strips. I have four strips of WS2812 (22 pixels each) that I’m going to glue lengthwise down a piece of PVC. I’d like to run the fire animation, so that it looks the same on all four strips. I’m sure there are examples, but I’m not sure what to look for or even what this setup is called. A matrix? Or something else?
Also, I’m guessing that the right way to wire it up is all four strips in series - top of one to the bottom of two, top of two to bottom of three, etc.
Anyway, any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Ryan! I’ll check it out. I got my strips all wired up, so I tried a script posted earlier by Steve Borgelt. He was using some feature called “chunks” to illuminate some pumpkins. It’s working for me at the moment during the prototyping stage, but I’ll look at the mirroring strips page too. Thanks again!
If you always want the 4 strips doing the same output and don’t want to be able to change that easily in the future, you could just wire each strip to the one data output.
I"ve done this recently on a build for a mates wheelchair (post coming). 4 strips all wired to the one pin on the arduino. All strips play the same animation at the same time.