README.md

Arduino LED Control

Arduino code for controlling LEDs:
See working animation code on a Paramotor Frame (youtube video)

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How to Program the Arduino Boards

Prerequisites

• Install Arduino IDE
• Open the IDE then click Tools -> Manage Libraries... -> Search for and install FastLED by Daniel Garcia

With Arduino IDE

Make sure you can upload code in Arduino IDE first

• Open the IDE then click File -> Open... (Browse to the arduino-led.ino)
• Connect your arduino via USB
• Tools -> Board -> (Choose your board, this was coded for the Arduino Nano)
• Tools -> Programmer -> Choose AVRISP mkII for the Nano
• Tools -> Port -> (Chose the COM port of the arduino)
• CLick the Upload -> Icon (Top left corner) to upload the code to the Arduino Board.

With VSCode

VSCode is more friendly to code in, so after setting up Arduino IDE you can switch over.

• Open VSCode then click File -> Open Folder... (Browse to this top level folder))
• Install the workspace recommended extensions (VSCode should ask). They are defined here for reference
• Connect your arduino via USB
• Change the paths in c_cpp_properties.json appropriate for your system.
• If needed change values in arduino.json. Extension will also display the Port, Programmer and Board at the bottom of the screen to switch between.
• Open arduino-led.ino
• Click the Upload Icon (Top right corner) to upload the code to the Arduino Board.

Changing Colors/Patterns/Code

• Everything is done in arduino-led.ino
• Specific LED strip presets can be imported, or not and used the default #defines for LED setup
• Color/Patters preset selections follow after
• General code is the rest
• Add new bi-colors in the getBiColor() function
• Add new animations to the activateLeds() function

Hardware/Build

• LED Lights 2x: ws2815
• Controller: Arduino Nano v3 ATmega328P
• Battery: 12V 6000mAh
• More gear linked on my website

Soldering

LED strips had 4 connections:

Strip Connection	Arduino Pin
Ground	GND (Shared)
12v	VIN (Shared)
Data	D6 (Output)
Data Backup	D6 (Output)

Simple LED Test

5 Volt Board power: 12 Volt External Power Test LED (TM1809 chipset) Connection

Paramotor Strips

PPG AC Nitro200 Wiring

Global LED array => 270 total
Purchased 2 rolls, 150 per led roll = 300 total => 30 left over

• 3 sections
  • Left
  • Top
  • Right
• 2 clusters per section
  • Left
  • Right
• 3 Nodes per cluster
  • Front
  • Back
  • Side
• 15 leds per node

Air Conception Paramotor LED Wiring

Resources

Arduino

• https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/structure/pointer-access-operators/dereference/
• https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/data-types-in-arduino/all
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/cpp_data_structures.htm
• https://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-lambda-closures.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28746744/passing-capturing-lambda-as-function-pointer
• https://learn.adafruit.com/multi-tasking-the-arduino-part-1/using-millis-for-timing
• https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=580012.0
• https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/StateChangeDetection
• https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=426632.0
• https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pull-up-resistors/all
• https://www.arduino.cc/en/tutorial/pushbutton
• http://ediy.com.my/index.php/tutorials/item/95-arduino-function-with-optional-arguments

FastLED

• https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED
• https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Overview
• https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Controlling-leds
• http://fastled.io/docs/3.1/group___colorutils.html#ga3144bb2bb66aeed33e20f4fdd6cc1a98

Code Ref

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FastLED+programming+patterns+tutorial
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcMKditEVtY
• http://hamburgtech.de/downloads/
• https://github.com/thehookup/Holiday_LEDs_2.0/blob/master/Holiday_LED_2.0_6_Zones.ino
• https://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/arduino/adruino-led-strip-effects/#LEDStripEffectMeteorRain
• http://yaab-arduino.blogspot.com/p/ala.html

Color

• https://sighack.com/post/procedural-color-algorithms-color-variations

Sim

• https://dougalcampbell.github.io/LEDStrip/
• https://github.com/dougalcampbell/LEDStrip
• https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=534060.0