Good morning,

Has anyone played around with diffusing fiber optics tubes along with Pinduino ?

Specifically, I recently acquired a Tron Pro, and it has been fitted with a RF remote control fiber optics tubes on the ramps, which cycle but do not react to gameplay. This uses a RGB fiber light source such as this: http://www.ledlightingfiberoptic.com/en/product/12VDC-24GHz-5W-RGB-LED-Fiber-Optic-Illuminator-for-fiber-optic-lighting.html (well not quite identical, but principle is the same).

I've been trying to find a control unit that would have a standardized protocol, as it would allow to control it through a pinduino, but could not find anything.

My alternative would be to use a single adressable led and define it as single led output in Pinduino, but checking first if anything had been done already.

Now you could ask why don't i use complete ledstrip in the ramps, it's just that I prefer the look of fiber optics, better integrated and more in line with the theme for my taste.

Regards

That was my conclusion indeed, I went the PinLightShield route which has two 12V RGB output and a few adressable led output depending on how I use the input.

Still need to assemble it though...

Pinduino does not control the original inserts. It's designed to control WS2812 ledstrip, so you would need to replace your inserts by a WS2812 "chain" (I believe there is an example of this on Pinduino github), and you would need to program it to control it. So it's not at all like ledocd or afterglow which essentially acts as voltage-to-PWM bridges

FYI, here's something I found, very useful:

https://www.led-genial.de/Power-Dot-3W-WS2811-kompatibel

Can be used to light fiber optics cables

On another note, has anyone worked on Monster Bash with Pinduino ? I'm assisting a friend (in France), and he's not very well versed in SW, so it would be best if a ready to use INO was available (I checked the github, did not see one)

Wow that would be super nice of you. Let me propose him.
Only concern though... I'm not sure he speaks english, and his Arduino skills are limited. And I don't have a MB either. Ok, that's a little bit more than one concern though.

But let me try to see how to work this out

I can also assist him in any case, just need to spend some time on the API

(sidenote .... there are a few undocumented calls still unless I'm mistaken )
(sidenote 2 ... unless I missed it, I did not see for a way to define segments in your code, just like WS2812FX library operates ? That would allow some very nice ledstrip management scheme, allowing to drive multiple daisy chained ledstrip from a single output)

As noted, WS2812FX library is perfect in that respect. Essentially you can define any section of a given ledstrip to be a segment, and you can assign a separate animation, turn it on or off. You can even define several segment, each with it's own animation, on the same section of the ledstrip, and enable depending on usage.

So that would allow for ex to daisy chain apron, GI, special effects, and drive them from a single output easily (you would simply assign each segment)

A single WS2812 led is 0.3W, so yes this power dot is 10x brighter...

I suspect you have a Tron, just like I do If so, since TimeBandit left the scene, I have a cool idea to drive the fiber optics depending on gameplay, PM me if you want to discuss this