I have spent the close to 6 hours today learning fastLED techniques through breaking

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I have spent the close to 6 hours today learning fastLED techniques through breaking apart the examples.

ColorTemperature is amazing! FastLED is incredible! I have been going between UncorrectedTemperature and COLOR LIGHT PROFILES. wow

Im so stoked on pallet knife, color temperatures and xy matrixes right now!

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Welcome! Glad you’re having fun and learning about FastLED.
Do you have a particular project that you’re thinking about, or are you mostly just exploring the possibilities at this point?

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Thank you Mark!

My last project I worked on was this hexagon speaker https://www.instagram.com/p/BEaFDJEn-kl/?taken-by=rexhex

Right now I am working on two little led wearable art pieces. Then I will move to a more complex LED sign.

I wanted to explore the possibilities before beginning to write new code. These FastLED examples are very informative and fun to break down/ look at. For example right now Im working on understanding the XYMatrix. When evaluating the main loop I decided it would be fun to let the brightness scale go back down after 10000ms. Im having a difficult time doing this without a error message which is helping me understand C in general.

Did you help create FastLED?

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@Daniel_Garcia and I work on FastLED together; he’s the wizard behind the fast I/O, the LED protocols, the platform ports, and a great deal of the overall infrastructure. My contributions have mostly been with the fast trig/math, and all the color wrangling (HSV etc). We both have pretty demanding day jobs, but we love working on FastLED together too.

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Thank you two for doing all this work in your spare time. Its been very fun to use and I love the HSV function. I have been working with leds and arduino for about 4 years now but FastLED is new to me. LEDs are what got me interested in writing code.

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Welcome to the club! (if there is a club?) 2 years ago, with NO experience, I started coding by asking questions around here, experimenting with code others have shared, and the occasional puff of blue smoke. Much thanks to the community for that!

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@Rex_Heck You HAVE found an excellent community. Not only does everyone here have a passion for blinky things, it is by far one of the most helpful groups of people I have ever met.

Way to go for messing around with existing code to figure out what makes it tick. I’m a coding newbie but amazed at how much I can learn from the work of far more experienced people.

Have fun!