Hi could some one be kind enough to let me know how could I

Chithru_Mihiripenna · May 25, 2015, 11:38pm

Hi could some one be kind enough to let me know how could I use the same pattern few times in the same program amount other pattern please.
For an example in the demo reel I would like to use the “juggle” pattern few times with different colours along with others, but I simply don’t know how to do that, When tries to call the pattern for the second time it gives me an error. Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Andrew_Tuline · May 26, 2015, 12:28am

I would think that your best bet is to download examples you’ve found online and take them apart and understand them. I’d be starting with the examples that came with FastLED.

Now, if you’d uploaded your code to pastebin and provided a link to it, I’m sure someone could provide some pointers.

JP_Roy · May 26, 2015, 12:48am

Your question made me think of +Mark Kriegsman Timecode Performance sketch from a while back. Here’s a link to that code…

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/kriegsman/a916be18d32ec675fea8

TimecodePerformance.ino

#include "FastLED.h"

// This sketch shows how to sequence a performance using HH,MM,SS.SSS timecode.
//
// A "ResetPerformance" method is provided so that the performance can be
// restarted from a custom external trigger, e.g., a button or event.
// For demonstration purposes, this Performance is reset if the
// sketch receives a letter "r" on the serial port.
//
// -Mark Kriegsman, January 2015

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Maybe that could guide you towards a solution.

Mark_Kriegsman · May 26, 2015, 10:01am

Take a look at this variation of Demo Reel, which has some parameters for each animation.

Chithru_Mihiripenna · May 27, 2015, 7:00pm

Hi Andrew, Roy and Mark, I don’t know how to thank you all enough, this is exactly what I was after. also any of you have any recommendations for any literature I could find to learn a bit programming , as you can see I haven’t done much, as I need to get to the next step of understanding examples as to why this code is used and why?
again thanks a million.

Mark_Kriegsman · May 27, 2015, 7:01pm

Happy to help, and welcome!

JP_Roy · May 27, 2015, 7:17pm

Hi @Chithru_Mihiripenna ,

Just look for ‘Arduino tutorial’ on YouTube you will get quite a few with many that start easy for the real beginner and progressively get harder.

That is exactly how I started close to 2 years ago. I have not used any Literature per say so obviously can’t recommend any!