Hi Folks !
I want to create an LED panel, that is going to be 32 x 12 LEDs. I'm planning on using WS2812B LEDs.
I want to be able to program sequence of animation, but saving all these in the Arduino itself, would be consuming memory like crazy, so a friend of mine, who is a "Nerdo" for creating program, offered to create a custom application, that would visually allow me to create a series of what we called "frame": basically, an "image" of what the 32x12 LEDs should look like (which one are ON, what color are they, etc ..). In the Arduino, I would need to read a frame, display it, read the next frame, display it, and so on ...
This friend of mine, knows nothing about Arduino though....
He says he can save the resulting words in a format that would look like the attach file. In resume, each pixel, would be a 32 bits word:
- bits 0-7 => Bytes value for Red component
- bits 8-15 => Bytes value for Green component
- bits 16-23 => Bytes value for Blue component
- bits 24-1 => Miscellaneous info, such as is this the beginning of a new Sequence, a new frame ...
My questions are:
- is it possible, in the Arduino, to read that 32 bits word, and segregate as 4 bytes ?
- Would I be able, to read a particular word, within that file, let's say read word 345 ?
If anyone has done something similar or has ideas/hints, please let me know !
