@Mark_Kriegsman got TiM talking to #FastLED!
Via Twitter: Three @wyolum TiM boards (384 pixels!), lit and rarin’ to go with #FastLED https://twitter.com/MarkKriegsman/status/444998271208275969/photo/1
Nice goin’ Mark!
(Psst, the library name is now FastLED - since SPI based chipsets are a subset of what the library supports 
Got it. Thanks.
@Daniel_Garcia , we are ready for another round of TiM boards. Should we go with ws2811 or ws2812 or something else?
I think the WS2812B is still your best bet for things, if only because you’ve got the led/chip in one package (plus, the WS2812B has only 4 pins total
I’d kill to see someone put something like an lpd8806 on led like the WS2812B (it’d be a 6 pin package, though, VIN, GND, DIN, CIN, DOUT, COUT) - mostly to get that 20Mbps data rate instead of 800kbps data rate.
Alas, the world seems to be moving to the 800kbps 3 wire chips, and moving away from clock/data line chipsets, which is a shame. (Sure, there are some 1600kbps 3 wire chips out there - but they’re going to be tough to support on 8Mhz systems, alas - especially with all the stuff 2.1 is going to squeeze in to those 8Mhz systems w/800kbps chpisets :).
Are these board available to purchase?
As if i need another pile of LEDs lying around
Yes, they are called TiM and they are available at Seeed studio
The TiM boards are really, really well thought out. You can trivially drive them as one 128-pixel strip OR as eight parallel 16-pixel strips, and they can be multiple TiM boards can be daisychained either way. Power is easy and well thought out, too. Great boards.
@Daniel_Garcia ia: you have a TiM or two, or four, right? Thought you might find the eight-way parallel input option interesting.)
Also, my ideal board would use nonexistent parts (5050 LEDs with embedded LDP8806), but barring that, I second Dan’s vote for WS2812B. Simple, bright, well-supported.