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Just tested it out with some of our example sketches - 2.2.1 looks good!
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Hey there! You can definitely use the normal PatternPaint software for this configuration, but it will require a lot of careful image manipulation...it might be a bit tricky, but if you're good with image editing it should be OK. You'll be able …
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Hey David - sorry for the slow response this time, but it sounds like you're OK now? I was going to suggest that you try the updated "production sketch" here: https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/BlinkyTape/tree/master/ProductionSketch
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OK, that's very strange. Not sure why the baud rate would be having an effect like that. If you use other sketches do you see the same issues? (DiscoParty is probably the Processing sketch that gets the most love.)
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OK, understood. Have you modded the programs to run with more LEDs or are you just running with the first 60 at this point?
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Hey Ollie, I'm not 100% sure on what you're trying to do there. Are you using our code with a different strip and an Arduino? Where does it freeze? Are you able to upload the code to the mega?
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Interesting! It strikes me that you might be able to make that work with just 1 meter of the strips, though; we've done 8x8 all off the single power source, which is a good size for a shirt.
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If you inject power further along the strip, or use another power supply for the whole thing, then you might even be able to use the BlinkyTape controller board (after all, they are Arduino-compatible.) Could I ask what your overall vision is?
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Hey there, We're working on adding this functionality in to pattern paint right now, but there are some other issues with adding LEDs. The biggest one is that the 1-meter length actually maxes out the current draw from the USB port, so you'd need …
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Hey there, This is definitely possible. How long would you want this to take? It would be possible to do this via an image in Patternpaint, but it would take a large image to do a slow fade, and the tape may not have enough memory. I think the e…
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Hi there! Thanks for the question. This is something that we're looking into but it's not possible at this time; unfortunately the tape doesn't have a huge amount of memory so it's tricky. It is possible via programming - for example the tape c…
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Hi Lewis - that's a great question actually. We'll have to wait for Matt to get a more definitive answer, but have you tried just replacing the hex file? What platform are you on btw?
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Actually it seems like that might be deprecated, but here's a good thread with a few ideas on how to achieve this: http://forum.processing.org/one/topic/run-code-on-exit.html TL:DR is try exit() or dispose() among a few other things.
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Hmm...interesting. I've noticed that in some of the Processing examples we don't explicitly close the serial connections in a stop() loop - on most architectures this doesn't seem to matter but I wonder if it might here? Give that a shot and let u…
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Actually there is something on the horizon with some DMX capability!
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Hmm...I wonder if the new Raspberry Pi is sending over the data too quickly. The tape can reset if we send it too much data too fast; I thought the Python had some protection against that but I'm not seeing that... Are you using the buffers or not…
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Hmm, sorry to hear that - unfortunately without an UDOO board it's really hard to tell what's going on. Are you getting the same messages as sciguy?
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Hey Asusrog - on some versions of Ubuntu, the "modemmanager" interferes, and you can remove it with: "sudo aptitude remove modemmanager" If that doesn't do it, look through sciguy's instructions and make sure that you've done the equivalent of each…
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Hey Mark, Hmm - this looks a bit tricky. I see a forum page where there's some discussion about RHEL and Arduino Leonard, which is very similar to our board here: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php/topic,151276.0.html and there's also some buzz abo…
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It's definitely possible - and actually super simple. There is a set of solder pads between each of the LEDs, as well as a line that shows you where to cut. Just cut there and solder three wires right across; pretty straightforward, but let me know …
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Nice one DeeHants!
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Wow, I love it!
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Nice demo!
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If you plan to have the tape hooked up to the computer for this, then there's not really much functional reason to change anything low-level (as far as I can see.) The only benefit to doing the Arduino approach is so the tape will retain patterns e…
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That seems like it would work fairly well - maybe not 100% ideal but we'd love to see how it comes out!
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Hey baat, Great questions - I'm not too familiar with the Python methods but I'll take a stab at them - on 1 I believe it just sends back some acknowledgements bits etc; nothing too useful. On 2, I believe that resetToBootloader puts the tape in t…
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Awesome, thanks!
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Hey! We sourced those diffusers in China and have really been struggling with finding a convenient US source. The best place might be alibaba.com but often those sales aren't for small amounts or charge a lot of shipping...
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You'll want to send a series of 3 x 0-254 values for each light (one R,G and B for each LED) followed by a 255 - that's all the tape is expecting. Unfortunately we're just not that familiar with touchdesigner, but keep us posted on your progress a…
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Nice - do you mind if we do a quick blog post about this?