You search “How to make LEDs react to music” on YouTube and a whole bunch of videos pop up, so which do you choose? And when you’re left with loose wires and a few blinking LEDs, or 1 pattern on 1 LED strip, what do you do next? I’ve been in that exact situation, about 5 years ago as I started down this path my Senior year at the University of Maryland.
It can be daunting, there’s a lot to learn. There’s hardware, software, and man, the amount of times I did EXACTLY what I was told in a video and it still didn’t work…
I want to save you the trouble, the frustration, and the months of being stuck. So I’m excited to provide you with 2 options to learn how to make the most of the amazing LEDs that exist today:
Option 1: If you want a huge head start but still want to figure things out for yourself, you can purchase Diod’s hardware here and use the source code on GitHub to get you started. If you need help, there’s the amazing FastLED Reddit Community and helpful people on our Discord standing by.
Option 2: The ~1,000 lines of code can look scary, I know, I’m there all the time looking at other projects online. But it’s not as complex as it looks, I can promise you that. Let me teach you from scratch, breaking the code up in to manageable chunks, in a guided, live online course over 2 weeks.