Neomatrix is a great idea,

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Neomatrix is a great idea, very nice library to add Adafruit GFX support to any size neopixel matrix. I wrote a nice demo for it: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoMatrix/pull/9

Here’s a video:

And blog post with pictures:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/arduino/post_2017-04-24_Adafruit-GFX-on-NeoMatrix-and-RGB-Matrix-Panel-Demo.html

It would be nice to have Neomatrix ported to FastLED to support other LED types and the option of running a matrix as 8 strips for faster refresh rate (on teensy 3.1 for instance), but for my use a single 576 LED neomatrix is more than fast enough.

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Cool work Marc.

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Cool stuff, I’m pretty new to the LED stuff. Does this only work with actual NeoMatrixes or would a set of LED strips connected to form a matrix (non-Adafruit) work as well?

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@Frank_Apap the neomatrix lib works with any kind of neopixel compatible LEDs, and you get to decide how they are wired (linear or criss crossed). This is explained on the neomatrix page from adafruit. If you look at the pictures or video, you’ll easily see that none of displays I have are actual neomatrices, they are just neopixel strips I wired together.