Can I mix SubBlades With WS281XBladePtr (building a staff, not a saber!)

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Hello, I’ve got a fun project underway - I’m building a Staff for my wife. Kind of a cross between Maleficent’s and Gandalf’s staff.

I have all the materials, and what I think is a decent plan:

Big Quartz crystal headpiece, under which sits a single LED inside a 20 pixel LED ring; a 13 pixel LED strip (some extra WS2812 strip); and two pixel switches.

My question is, can I mix SubBlade (the single LED and the ring) with WS281XBlasePtr in the BladeConfig? Arduino hasn’t thrown an error when I verify, but I wanted to ask before I start wiring.

BladeConfig blades[] = {
 { 0,   
		SubBlade(0, 0, WS281XBladePtr<21, bladePin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin2> >()), // 1 pixel center accent
    	SubBlade(1, 21, NULL), // accent 20 pixel ring
		
		WS281XBladePtr<13, blade2Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin3> >(),//// 13 pixel LED strip
		
		WS281XBladePtr<2, blade3Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin4> >(),//// 2 pixel Power Switch
		
		WS281XBladePtr<2, blade4Pin, Color8::GRB, PowerPINS<bladePowerPin5> >(),//// 2 pixel Aux Switch
		
	CONFIGARRAY(presets) },
};

And yes, I will absolutely post photos and movies once it’s underway.

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Cool project!

Yes.
Your second subblade might be off by one number.

21 pixels starts at 0 and ends at 20.

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yikes, good catch!

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Got everything wired up today - ended up making the switches another subblade. It’s still a mess, but it fired up and works beautifully!

Thanks for the assist, I’ll post pics and video once it’s ready to show!

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