Hey Guys. I have an idea for a project but need a whole lot of advice. I'm a beginner in pretty much every aspect but am a quick learner and have been trying to teach myself as much as possible. Here is the basic rundown of my idea: I want a relatively small RGB led matrix that is completely mobile and battery pack powered. The unique part of it is that it will be an irregular shape (I'll go over this later), I want it to be able to play/display simple animations, I need the leds to be as tightly packed as I can get them, and they'll be mounted to a curved surface. All I have right now is an arduino so I've been playing around with color cycles with that but a friend of mine pointed me to the Octows2811 library as a solution. My basic idea is to have the display look something like this:
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That's sort of a crude example obviously but hopefully you get the idea. My original idea was to just solder individual RGB leds as closely together as I could get them but I can see the advantages of using strips. I think the final project will have no more than 500 leds. My question is do you guys think Octows2811 is the best solution? Or does anyone know of a different resource for this type/scale of project? Being able to display animations is a huge part of the project so that's a must, as well as being ultra portable/something I can carry on my body. Any ideas? Thank you all for your input!!
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That's sort of a crude example obviously but hopefully you get the idea. My original idea was to just solder individual RGB leds as closely together as I could get them but I can see the advantages of using strips. I think the final project will have no more than 500 leds. My question is do you guys think Octows2811 is the best solution? Or does anyone know of a different resource for this type/scale of project? Being able to display animations is a huge part of the project so that's a must, as well as being ultra portable/something I can carry on my body. Any ideas? Thank you all for your input!!