New Blade Idea

[profezzorn]

Yes, but it might tax the OS a bit.
The maximum frame rate would be 53 FPS, which should be good enough.
If the blade styles are too heavy, I can implement something that just duplicates the values 3 times to speed things up.

I don’t suppose these pixels support 1.6Mhz data rate? That could potentially double the frame rate.

I have a blade for my K4 saber which has 529 leds in it. It works pretty well with ProffieOS 5.x, but I expect it to work even better with ProffieOS 6.x:

K4 / ProffieOS 5.x demo

I also have plans to build a quad-blade using higher density strips:

1000+ LED blade

A while back I found these 288-led-per meter strips, and I’ve been wanting to build a zigzag quad-blade using those ever since. ProffieOS6 has some optimizations that makes it better at handling a lot of LEDs, so I figure it’s time to start building. [IMG_20211002_180545] The idea is to fold one of the edges of the strip into a 90-degree angle, then the four strips overlap partially and form a sort of pinwheel shape around a 6mm square wooden dowel. We’ll see how well it works… The final blade should have about 1060 LEDs, twice that of my current zigzag quad-blade.