Ok so in the meantime, from what I gather (for my own notes):
- I need to decide on the input being direct pin or shift-registers. Either way maintain background process that scans/tracks all the input pins.
Question: What do you mean by "sync clock between nodes if they are used."
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Build an array of timers/time constants to manage every possible output.
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This has lost me can you provide a resource(s) for me to check out:
"You have to calculate on/off or PWM decay level for every channel, and output that against the continuously running timer values.
Having a local serial coprocessor may also help, as each local cpu will have its own pwm outputs- to drive the drivers."
How would I go about asking the mods to do that? Sorry... new here. Cool to know that I could get some return from this; but I agree that I want it designed first before I build it.