MichaelMeissner
Senior Member+
I see that Adafruit has released an entirely new lighting technology (dotstars) that uses a 2 wire SPI protocol. This protocol does not have the strict 800Khz transmission link that neopixels/WS2812B's had, and I presume is friendlier for programs that use interrupts, and is better for POV projects. I would imagine the tricks that the ws2811/fastled libraries use would be applicable to dotstars as well, but I imagine it is probably very low on the priority queue and it would be an enormous amount of effort to do the ports. I do wonder if the Teensy might run so fast with these optimizations, that artificial delays might be needed, or if the lights can keep up with anything that the Teensy can throw. https://www.adafruit.com/product/2241.
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