I've read some posts about members wanting to use their Arduino for things like a wind simulator or a display which is what I want to use mine for. Is there any way this can be added in a future update?
It's on our to-do list, but it won't happen any time soon because it would require a LOT of work. And this is not yet worth it because there are only a handful of people that would use a feature like this, sorry.
I've actually been getting interest from several people, in particular those that want something good for a budget. This one cost me around $60 USD to build:
1. We don't have any arduino devices ourselves, so to test it would be difficult (not impossible because I'd built it with RS232 in mind anyway)
2. It would open the gates for any hardware vendor to create a display and have it "supported" by Fanaleds, without us even knowning. I encourage DIY (I'm a big DIY-er myself) but the problem could be people complaining to us about stuff that doesn't work about other companies displays.
In short this means the priority for this is right on the bottom of the todo list. Because we'd need some kind of legal plan for shielding of the issues with other companies.
Hey, I really understand the reason that you haven't do this. But I don't think it is worth to be worried about.
Arduino is expensive to make product. Although it has a low price as DIY-er's think, as a hardware vendor, it is waste to build a product with it. So only DIY-er will choose it.
You don't even need to "support" Arduino. You can just make the protocol open, we will complete the rest of the things. Otherwise we have to guess the data struct just like zeb_rally is doing.