Raspberry Pi Addressable LED Controller

Various animations, patterns and timings for addressable LED lights.

Concepts

Refer to Concepts article for more information.

TODO

• Implement animations:
  • Combination animations
    • One followed by another
  • Nightrider
    • Combo sections slide left + slide irght
  • Section Loop around
    • Combo sections slide left/right multiple times
  • Twinkling
• Implement timings
  • Repeating set of values (e.g. 25ms then 10ms then 50ms, repeat)
  • Add microphone and support bpm?
• Implement patterns
  • Colour stops with various different calculations for inbetween colours
  • Colour sections
  • Store random colour values to support consistent colours when shifting
  • Pallettes of colour
• Define sequences via parsing a special string
  • e.g. 'A=FR;P=R;T=C,25;A=FL' (Animation fill right, Palette is random, Timing is constant 25ms, then animate Fill left, then repeat)
  • Subsequent palettes/timings just change the current settings until overridden
  • Provide brightness override
• Complete executable/main library with LED WS2812/ILightingController implementation
• Implement LAN communication
  • Implement a technique to send instructions
    • Post a string to a simple web server with various patterns/palettes etc?
    • Create RPI app to provide controls for sending string
• Add circuit diagram

Bugs

• Sometimes there is a long pause on a single pattern (FIXED? Needs Testing)
• Sometimes there an odd color left over on the first/last LED (FIXED? Needs Testing)