Cassette - WIP

This project is still a work in progress and may never end up completed, or may become something radically different than described.

What / Why

I like LEDs. I’ve previously built a 3600 LED, 1m x 1m RGB matrix and spent a lot of time slowly blinding myself with it.

I have ambitions for future LED based projects, and would love to see them come to fruition. Unfortunately, I have not yet found a LED matrix/strip host software suitable to my needs. So I started developing Cassette. 75% LED host software, 25% excuse to finally learn Rust.

Goals

• Allows for multiple active outputs with independent animations
• Allows for various (custom) device protocol output
• Allows cross device patching (the ability to make multiple LED devices act as one)
• Web based interface
• Provides audio interface to LED animations to support music reactivity
• Supports “mixing” of up to 4 animations
• More to be made up as the project comes together

Status

I’ve written a basic set of music reactive animations, and have functional mixers. The web based interface is nearly functional, with only a few more api bindings needing to be written for a minimally viable host.