I just saw dave post. Thats possibly where I am now :).

I just saw dave post. Thats possibly where I am now :). I have got the lights in 9x9 layout as three lights are to one ic. I have gotten the wood and will begin cutting it up soon. I have improved my soldering and used electricity tape instead of heat tube which I don’t have laying around. I have used ardiuno nano as a perferred board as I have these around. Right now comes programming fun or not! Hehe. I realised that colours are displaying differently from the examples. I played around with changing neopixel to ws2811 but I think rgb needs to be reconfigured to grb.

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Hello, you post this under support but I do not see any question !?

For some reason, I can’t play the video you posted.

All my WS281x’s needed to be configured as GRB.

There’s a test sketch in the FastLED examples called RGBCalibrate that you can use to make sure.

That strip will not behave nicely with the RGB calibrate but he should be able to figure it out.

Just change this line to either…

LEDS.addLeds<WS2811,DATA_PIN, GRB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);

or

LEDS.addLeds<WS2811,DATA_PIN, GBR>(leds, NUM_LEDS)

or

LEDS.addLeds<WS2811,DATA_PIN, BGR>(leds, NUM_LEDS);
}

etc… etc…

It should be fine - it will just show 3x as many LEDS as a ‘normal’ strip would.

There’s nothing special about them - they are just 3x LEDs tied to each controller, so they act exactly the same.

@Mike_Thornbury that is what I meant by… “he should be able to figure it out”…

You said “That strip will not behave nicely with the RGB calibrate” - it will behave just fine.

Well, by ‘not behave nicely’ I only meant that it will not behave exactly as per the instructions.

Yep that was the question. Thank you. I will give a try tonight. And other than that do you recommend me to do an example xy matrix that I found in the library and any sample animations to play with. I know there are animations codes on this community.

Im not the droid to talk to about matrices, there are some very experienced people that will be able to give you stellar advice. Good luck with the project.

Hi @Philipp_Horn , because of the 3 pixel per IC in your strip, it is not easy to suggest any existing animation. They will most likely require significant adaptation to make them look reasonable.

However, nothing prevents you from trying any and see how it looks on your assembled strips. Good luck!!

Thank you Jp Roy, I’m planning to try to group three leds in a pixel boxes of 10cm.

Ahhh… so you have a 9 X 9 array, 81 cells, with each cell holding 1 ws2811 IC and 3 RGB LEDS ?

Yes that is correct.

How about make a 8 x 8 matrix
There is a XYMatrix example built-in FastLED 3.1

Just did the classification of rgb and it works! And I used the latest library to do xy matrix, check on my profile: Ive posted a short video of it. Next step is to learn about animations and figure out how to use ir or Bluetooth. I have done ir before for simple turn on and off the led blub I suppose the same can be applied to each set of animations.

@Philipp_Horn Search for @Stefan_Petrick examples, his "FunkyCloud " is very nice and easy to follow,