RGB over Serial

[needs better organization -- just dumping thoughts for now]

Question: What is the best way to send large amounts of RGB data from a computer to an Arduino in order to drive a large(ish) LED matrix?

VideoDisplay

OctoWS2811 is an Adaptor for the Teensy 3.2 and an accompanying Arduino library that comes with an example called VideoDisplay. This demonstrates how to prepare your Teensy/Octo to receive a super efficient stream of RGB data. The Processing side is provided here. In a nutshell, every frame is encoded into chunks of 8 pixels. This must have a compression effect, but I don't totally understand how yet.

Serial Buffer

Different Arduino have different size serial buffer, which can greatly affect how to structure your communication.

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