Thread: Robot Lighting
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Re: Robot Lighting
We added our lighting very late this year at Championship due to making sure we had weight for it.

We used the addressable LED strip from Adafruit, as we did last year. This was controlled by an Arduino Uno R3, which was sent commands to change mode from our robot software through I2C. We were in danger of maxing out the available digital I/O ports early in the season, but had planned to use an Arduino anyway. I2C is available and keeps other robot-useful ports open, and has built in SPI support which is the fastest method of communicating with the LED strip.

Once we had the I2C figured out, it was easy after that.
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