I buy regularly from chinese stores on Alibaba. the led strips have been fine, but occasionally I have had to pay duty / tax.
I see that the apa102 2020 strips are just starting to be produced. It may be worth seeing...
static text display using the Teensy OctoWS2811 library
@JohnWatterson, below is an example of displaying static text using the OctoWS2811 library for Teensy. It should get you going. Just change the ledsPerStrip...
hopefully you managed to get the colours in the right order now. Regarding the text element, there is code around for displaying text on led arrays. This uses an array to hold char values. are you talking about this...
The Glediator example code is running a 1-byte-at-a-time read. It might be speed things up to change that initial "get it working" sketch to use a buffer? This section, where serialGlediator() is a serial read:
for...