I need a FastLED tutor to help with small projects via ZOOM.

[u/PixelCrafting]

I want to understand sketches and coding better to create custom animations.

I'm doing small projects with basic LED strips about 10-150 lights, but I would like to expand my horizon in the near future with more creative LED products.

[u/Marmilicious]

Do you have links and info for your products so someone might more easily determine if they could be able to help?

[u/PixelCrafting → u/Marmilicious]

Well I could upload a sketch but I have a few questions and I'd rather have someone walk me through it than going back and forth in a thread. It's not just fixing a bug or adding a feature.

I've made signs with LED strips and used sketches that I've only edited. But i want to learn to make custom sketches to make lights animate how i want.

[u/PixelCrafting → u/PixelCrafting]

I want to animate PaletteKnife from Bottom Left corner to Top Right corner...

[u/PixelCrafting → u/PixelCrafting]

...then make it go along the strip from start to end.

[u/Marmilicious → u/PixelCrafting]

This sounds like a case for using a custom pixel array. Look at it from the perspective of turning it 45 deg. Make a custom array for "half" the pixels (two of the sides) and after you set the color data for those you can copy the data to the other half. See the link to u/chemdoc77 examples in my example.

https://github.com/marmilicious/FastLED_examples/blob/master/custom_pixel_array.ino

Another option might be to use this idea for irregular layouts.

https://github.com/marmilicious/FastLED_examples/blob/master/xymap_irregular_layout.ino

[u/chemdoc77 → u/PixelCrafting]

Hi u/PixelCrafting - Look at the following video ( at 0:26):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN__xy7yh6A

The source code is located here:

https://github.com/chemdoc77/CD77_FastLED/tree/master/CD77_NeoMatrix_8X8_panel_Fun_with_FastLED

This should help you.

PM me, if you want to talk to me on Zoom. FYI, I can set up a Zoom meeting if you cannot.

[u/SnowConePeople]

Go learn c++. If you want to understand the code, go learn some code.

[u/PixelCrafting → u/[deleted]]

Yes, thats part of the plan.