Hi, there!
This is my first post here so…
First of all, I want to thank Benjamin Vedder for his great project and @Onloop for this kind place.
Also great thanks to @WhitePony for his very detailed and helpful build process posts.
And all of you, guys, for that large community.
Now, closer to the topic…
I spent some time to realize my friend’s idea of underbody synchronized lighting,
it’s hard to explain and better to see once than read a hundred times.
Thanks! Full hue also gonna be cool, but because of winter I cant record outdoor video to show that you can skate the rainbow
Thanks, man! Just enjoy the result of idea!
I attached links to components at github project page. And yeah, you need APA102 because of some limitations of ws2812
At first I tried to accomplish this project with ws2812, but it’s too slow because this strip is very time dependent - ws2812 library disables interrupts to write to the strip and enables it back, so with uart interrupts this all takes too much time… I dont say this is impossible, but sure, to get it work you will need to write your own libraries on vanilla C. One for Arduino uart setup and communication and second for updating ws2812 strip, so I decided that I don’t want to waste time on this.
Will be glad to help - ask if you will have any questions.
Thanks! But I dont think that changes will be minor, man. Please, see my answer to @scepterr
No, have not tried it yet, but thanks for info, man!
In comparison arduino with teensy, cost of overall project will be more, even with ws2812 instead of apa102.