So im looking in to doing some simple work on a apa102 strip,

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So im looking in to doing some simple work on a apa102 strip, using an atiny85. To my dismay, spi on these chips are finnicky/nonexistant. is there any way for me to use this library and still use spi on these chips? Im seeing very complicated fixes, and id be willing to try them all, but i still need at least 4k for patterns.I am a beginner to this library and to avr in general. Please help!

Thanks in advanced.

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You can just tell FastLED to use any pair of pins and it will bitbang quite happily. I haven’t put in support for the usi based hardware spi on the tiny yet.

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you rock! thanks for the fast(lol) reply.

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does the bitbanging reduce the speed drastically? i want to eventually use pov, but its not necessary as of now.

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Bitbanging should still get you data rates that are higher than the ws2812s - I spent a bunch of time optimizing it. Though, one thing I haven’t done is optimized the scaling/color correction/dithering for SPI based chipsets on the attiny85 as much as I did for the ws2811, so I suspect that’s going to eat more overhead.