Arduino code for controlling LEDs:
See working animation code on a Paramotor Frame (youtube video)

• Install Arduino IDE
• Open the IDE then click Tools -> Manage Libraries... -> Search for and install FastLED by Daniel Garcia

Make sure you can upload code in Arduino IDE first

• Open the IDE then click File -> Open... (Browse to the arduino-led.ino)
• Connect your arduino via USB
• Tools -> Board -> (Choose your board, this was coded for the Arduino Nano)
• Tools -> Programmer -> Choose AVRISP mkII for the Nano
• Tools -> Port -> (Chose the COM port of the arduino)
• CLick the Upload -> Icon (Top left corner) to upload the code to the Arduino Board.

VSCode is more friendly to code in, so after setting up Arduino IDE you can switch over.

• Open VSCode then click File -> Open Folder... (Browse to this top level folder))
• Install the workspace recommended extensions (VSCode should ask). They are defined here for reference
• Connect your arduino via USB
• Change the paths in c_cpp_properties.json appropriate for your system.
• If needed change values in arduino.json. Extension will also display the Port, Programmer and Board at the bottom of the screen to switch between.
• Open arduino-led.ino
• Click the Upload Icon (Top right corner) to upload the code to the Arduino Board.

• Everything is done in arduino-led.ino
• Specific LED strip presets can be imported, or not and used the default #defines for LED setup
• Color/Patters preset selections follow after
• General code is the rest
• Add new bi-colors in the getBiColor() function
• Add new animations to the activateLeds() function

• LED Lights 2x: ws2815
• Controller: Arduino Nano v3 ATmega328P
• Battery: 12V 6000mAh
• More gear linked on my website

LED strips had 4 connections:

5 Volt Board power: 12 Volt External Power Test LED (TM1809 chipset) Connection

Global LED array => 270 total
Purchased 2 rolls, 150 per led roll = 300 total => 30 left over

• 3 sections
  • Left
  • Top
  • Right
• 2 clusters per section
  • Left
  • Right
• 3 Nodes per cluster
  • Front
  • Back
  • Side
• 15 leds per node

Air Conception Paramotor LED Wiring

• https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/structure/pointer-access-operators/dereference/
• https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/data-types-in-arduino/all
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/cpp_data_structures.htm
• https://www.cprogramming.com/c++11/c++11-lambda-closures.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28746744/passing-capturing-lambda-as-function-pointer
• https://learn.adafruit.com/multi-tasking-the-arduino-part-1/using-millis-for-timing
• https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=580012.0
• https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/StateChangeDetection
• https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=426632.0
• https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pull-up-resistors/all
• https://www.arduino.cc/en/tutorial/pushbutton
• http://ediy.com.my/index.php/tutorials/item/95-arduino-function-with-optional-arguments

• https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED
• https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Overview
• https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Controlling-leds
• http://fastled.io/docs/3.1/group___colorutils.html#ga3144bb2bb66aeed33e20f4fdd6cc1a98

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=FastLED+programming+patterns+tutorial
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcMKditEVtY
• http://hamburgtech.de/downloads/
• https://github.com/thehookup/Holiday_LEDs_2.0/blob/master/Holiday_LED_2.0_6_Zones.ino
• https://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/arduino/adruino-led-strip-effects/#LEDStripEffectMeteorRain
• http://yaab-arduino.blogspot.com/p/ala.html

• https://sighack.com/post/procedural-color-algorithms-color-variations

• https://dougalcampbell.github.io/LEDStrip/
• https://github.com/dougalcampbell/LEDStrip
• https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=534060.0