We wake up at 5am in downtown Toronto to beat the morning rush hour out of the city. It is pouring rain outside and chilly, but we are in our cozy tracksuits, camera bags ready, few pairs of clothes and essential road snacks for a 7 hour drive ahead.
Our destination is Sault Ste. Marie, a small town on the St. Mary’s River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, and famous for its Soo Locks where some 80 million tons of iron ore pass every year.
Now the region has become known for its early fall colors, whereupon the first sightings of the maple leafs turning spark an influx of travellers and photographers looking to capture the otherworldly explosion of color as it slowly makes its way south, typically from the last week of September to the first week of October.
7 hours, 3 Tim Hortons stops, and 1 power nap later we arrive in downtown Sault Ste. Marie. We walk the city, getting a sense of its history and culture, glad to have a few locals playing tour guide who could expand our knowledge beyond what we could research online, and could share a few local, hidden gems.
The following morning we wake at 7 am to overcast skies and drizzle, and after an obligatory stop at Tim Hortons for a double double, we meet Brad and Amanda from Thrive Tours to pickup our canoe for a morning paddle on Lake Superior.
After a series of turns on unmarked roads we arrive at a small clearing on the lakeshore surrounded by brightly colored trees.
Brad beats a small drum and recites a prayer in Ojibwe while clutching onto some loose tobacco leaves. He then places some in each of our left hand symbolizing the closeness to heart and asks us to leave our prayers into the water quietly, helping to ensure our safe return.
Despite the storm of the previous day, the water is calm, and we spend the next two hours quietly paddling along the shoreline and under birch, red oak, and sugar maples that hang out over the water in a rainbow canopy.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I have been unable to locate the set of options or locate a tutorial (or even a dictionary deciphering the pretentious marketing nicknames for all the settings) on how to implement custom colors with a simple chasing pattern on this...... app.
Could someone with more experience point me in the right direction?
Well.... after hours of searching and trying different code for FastLED, I now have some what of what I am looking for but not exactly. I am working on putting WS2813 on a Mardi Gras Float and using FastLED and Arduino to do this. I have modified some code I found and have the colors Purple, Gold and Green going down the strip until all 144 leds are lite and then the next color replaces it and then the third followed back to the beginning.
What I am wanting is to light up lets say 5 leds in Color 1 in positions 0-4 then move to positions 1-5 and 0 become the second color and them move to 2-6 and 0 and 1 change ect ect ect... So the colors are chasing each other in a group of 5(or more) pixels. Basically a marquee effect with three colors chasing continuous with out a tail fade.
I have not found a basic sketch that does this, so if anyone has a solution or can provide help it would be great. Below is my current sketch running the 3 colors that fill the entire strip before the next color changes.
https://github.com/rpalmer66/FastLED/blob/main/PGG_Chase_Base
Is it possible to setup several LIFX lights (a19/br30) to chase in several colors?
