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Re: Color Of LED's On Camera

We used a RGB LED ring.

It can be any color. It is essentially a ring shaped bright pixel.

We made a simple transistor based driver board for it, and controlling it with the PWM from the digital sidecar's IO pins (not the PWM pins that control victors and Jags.)

We are experimenting with the software automatically change colors (and thresholds) based on camera distance [we have noticed that some colors have an effective range, and when outside it they don't work as well].
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