Eliza
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

Update on Dancing Tinkerbell. Everything is finally working. First I got the nano to broadcast to the uno, which sent signals on simple wires to the m...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@zander Ok, to reply to Zander I had to look for Ron. I looked and looked for the voltage post (looking for Zander in the name box) So thanks, I got i...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

Update, 2:56 PM Oct 21, 2022 Zander had it right. Thanks Zander. I can't find his post to reply. The Nano was 3 volts and the Mega is 5. I used the ...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@zander Thanks Zander! This might be it. I'll have a look at the Nano specs. I will also try with an Uno. (I think I already tried an Uno but can't re...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@will No, I am not saying that the Nano has to keep the pin set until the Mega "catches up" I could keep the pin on the Nano high for as long or short...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@will The interrupt is a hardware interrupt that does not fail with either the FastLED library, nor the ASK library. Why use the interrupt? Because I ...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@will It is not the case that one pass through the loop is sufficient. I worked on this for many weeks. The "Make Tink Dance" routine can run up to 10...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@will I looked up opto-isolator. This doesn't help. I'd still want the Mega to see the signal from the opto-isolator, as if it were a button push, and...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@will I'm not worried about anything. I can't detect the signal, or perhaps the attachInterrupt (digitalPinToInterrupt(SHOWCARDPIN),ISR1,FALLING); sta...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@robotbuilder This image is great, but we're using a 32 x 8 inside a lantern. Not enough pixels for this detail. Tinkerbell is a green diamond droppin...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

Update on Dancing Tinkerbell Goal is to create a dancing tinkerbell in a lantern for a pirate magician. Tinkerbell is displayed on a 32 x 8 grid of ...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@robotbuilder Bingo, that's it. The radio behavior isn't degraded, it is simply gone.

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@robotbuilder WS2812B is what I'm using, so this link is exactly what I need. Thanks. It's not a "time in my LED display" problem at all, it's this di...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@robotbuilder I have a way to make it work, using 2 ideas from the forum discussion. I can make a dedicated "radio listener" out of a nano and then us...

1 year ago
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RE: Dancing Tinkerbell for a pirate magician

@zander The radios are connected to pins 11 on the receiver and pin 12 on the transmitter. The LED grid is connected to pin 3 on the receiver, arduino...

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