Arduinnno crshes with LPD8806

[BuggsBunny]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with an Arduino Duemilanove and the 32 LED strip with LPD8806. I'm running the following code:

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#define BUFFERSIZE 127
uint8_t inBuffer[BUFFERSIZE];
int i;
int iPos;
int nLEDs = 32;
LPD8806 strip = LPD8806(nLEDs);

...
          for (i=0; i < nLEDs; i++) {
            strip.setPixelColor(i, strip.Color(inBuffer[iPos + 1], inBuffer[iPos + 2], inBuffer[iPos + 3]));
          }
          strip.show();
...

It does what it's supposed to do and sets all LEDs to one color; however, eventually, latest when this ran several times, the strip begins to flicker and the board crashes. Could that have to do with the clocking of the chips and if yes, how can I change that? Or is this something else?

thanks and happy programing,
Buggs

[adafruit_support_rick]

Sounds like it could be a bug in your sketch. Try running the example code and see if you observe similar failures

[ericgu]

Without knowing what is in the "..." sections, it's hard to tell.

One thing that could easily crash the board is if you are setting values into inBuffer that are bigger than the size of the buffer.