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Software/methodology Methodology for prototypingdesigning/prototyping LED patterns

Several of my projects go through this time-consuming and tedious phase:

  1. design a LED pattern for a geometry of WS2812 stripsLEDs
  2. implement it with e.g. FastLED
  3. write to Arduino
  4.   and see results
  5. goto step 1

The second step, implementing different ideas in C with FastLED (or similar) takes a lot longer than I'd like it to. How is this step usually solved? Are there higher-level software solutions? Specialised idea-testing hardware?

I'd like to easily try out ideas such as "what if these four LEDs blinked magenta every second, while a gradient was cycling around the gradient over here".

Software/methodology for prototyping LED patterns

Several of my projects go through this time-consuming and tedious phase:

  1. design a LED pattern for WS2812 strips
  2. implement it with e.g. FastLED
  3. write to Arduino
  4.   see results
  5. goto step 1

The second step, implementing different ideas in C with FastLED (or similar) takes a lot longer than I'd like it to. How is this step usually solved? Are there higher-level software solutions? Specialised idea-testing hardware?

I'd like to easily try out ideas such as "what if these four LEDs blinked magenta every second, while a gradient was cycling around the gradient over here".

Methodology for designing/prototyping LED patterns

Several of my projects go through this time-consuming and tedious phase:

  1. design a LED pattern for a geometry of WS2812 LEDs
  2. implement it with e.g. FastLED
  3. write to Arduino and see results
  4. goto step 1

The second step, implementing different ideas in C with FastLED (or similar) takes a lot longer than I'd like it to. How is this step usually solved? Are there higher-level software solutions? Specialised idea-testing hardware?

I'd like to easily try out ideas such as "what if these four LEDs blinked magenta every second, while a gradient was cycling around the gradient over here".

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Anna
Anna
  • 163
  • 5

Software/methodology for prototyping LED patterns

Several of my projects go through this time-consuming and tedious phase:

  1. design a LED pattern for WS2812 strips
  2. implement it with e.g. FastLED
  3. write to Arduino
  4. see results
  5. goto step 1

The second step, implementing different ideas in C with FastLED (or similar) takes a lot longer than I'd like it to. How is this step usually solved? Are there higher-level software solutions? Specialised idea-testing hardware?

I'd like to easily try out ideas such as "what if these four LEDs blinked magenta every second, while a gradient was cycling around the gradient over here".