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AnimatedLEDStrip for Raspberry Pis

History

The AnimatedLEDStrip project started as a project for the Software Design class at St. Olaf College in spring 2018. Originally, it was a C++ library for Arduinos that expanded on the well-known FastLED library. That fall, the project was ported to Kotlin and Raspberry Pis, this time expanding upon the diozero-ws281x-java library.

Overview

This extension library adds the AnimatedLEDStripPi (subclassing AnimatedLEDStrip) and AnimatedLEDStripPiNonConcurrent (subclassing AnimatedLEDStripNonConcurrent) classes. These can be used to run an LED strip from a Raspberry Pi. Uses the rpi-ws281x-java library (a java wrapper for the rpi_ws281x library.