Adafruit_DotStar communication fails when Serial.print ing

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mpfeiffer202
 
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Adafruit_DotStar communication fails when Serial.print ing

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Hi! I'm building a CalendarRing to show where we are in the year visually with an RTC and 356 DotStars ring.

Serial.print ing to many things in my code prevents communication with a 3m DotStar w/ aux power. Initiating the DotStar in some cases drops Serial.print outs. Header files seem to be causing problems too. DotStar strand test works fine. Never had problems with Adafruit_NeoPixels. It has been a very challenging debug process. I'm looking to video chat with someone who has a high level of understanding of these pieces of hardware/software for payment.
Thanks!

https://github.com/matteblackrobotics/C ... zant/Test2

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Re: Adafruit_DotStar communication fails when Serial.print ing

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What microcontroller are you using?

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