{
  "id": "led_strip_mapper",
  "name": "LED Strip Mapper",
  "description": "Samples a visual down to one pixel per LED and streams the colors out a Serial DAT to an addressable LED strip.",
  "tags": ["led", "output", "mapping", "hardware"],
  "difficulty": "advanced",
  "td_version_min": "2022",
  "nodes": [
    { "name": "source", "type": "nullTOP", "comment": "Wire your visual into this node" },
    { "name": "fit", "type": "fitTOP", "comment": "Resample to LED-strip resolution (e.g. 144x1)" },
    { "name": "topto", "type": "toptoCHOP", "comment": "TOP → CHOP: one sample per LED" },
    { "name": "chopto_dat", "type": "choptoDAT", "comment": "Channels → table of color bytes" },
    { "name": "serial", "type": "serialDAT", "comment": "Sends bytes to the LED controller" }
  ],
  "connections": [
    { "from": "source", "to": "fit" },
    { "from": "fit", "to": "topto" },
    { "from": "topto", "to": "chopto_dat" }
  ],
  "parameters": [
    {
      "name": "led_count",
      "node": "fit",
      "param": "resolutionw",
      "value": 144,
      "min": 1,
      "max": 1024,
      "label": "LED Count"
    }
  ],
  "preview_description": "A thin strip of sampled colors mirroring the source visual, ready to push to physical LEDs."
}