Best of FastLED Discussions - frukto/FastLED GitHub Wiki

There's a good discussion forum for FastLED on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FastLED The FastLED developers are active participants, as are a growing number expert users.

This page collects up a few links to some of the most useful, most helpful, most interesting, or simply most lengthy discussions that have taken place over there. (Note many of these are to the maker forums backup posts from the old g+ community)

• ["Fire2012": Fire simulation for Arduino and FastLED] (https://forum.makerforums.info/t/quick-video-of-fire2012-heres-what-the-fire2012-fire-simulation-looks-like-when-running/64646) Includes video and full source code.

• [2-D XY Matrix sample] (https://forum.makerforums.info/t/xy-matrix-16x16-matrix-256-pixels-driven-by-an-arduino-nano-plastic-diffuser/64644) Includes sample code and video.

• Anti-aliasing aka fractional pixels aka sub-pixel rendering Includes video and sample code. (https://forum.makerforums.info/t/anti-aliasing-example-this-example-shows-two-bars-of-light-moving-at-the-same-speed/60227)

• Battery/portable power sources for LED projects (https://forum.makerforums.info/t/portable-power-halloweens-a-coming-me-hearties/60217)

• [Where to buy 'larger' quantities of LEDs] (https://forum.makerforums.info/t/hi-there-im-trying-to-find-a-supplyer-for-buying-30-meters-of-adressable/58838) Pros and cons of eBay, AliExpress, and various specific suppliers.

• [Which 'library' is smaller, FastLED or Adafruit Neopixel?] (https://forum.makerforums.info/t/which-library-is-smaller/60248) TL;DR: for many animations, using FastLED results in smaller code.

If you see a discussion that you think should be added here, please let us know!