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During the offseason, our team has made a neat light controller for two independent colors of RGB LED lights. We used our own PCB with a MAX232 IC to connect the cRIO serial port to the serial connection of a ATMega328 microcontroller(The one found in newer ardruinos). The ATMega328 would receive a color command from the cRIO and it would use its 6 pwms to switch the transistors for the common anode LED's. It makes a great project and it only requires 24 components so routing the PCB was really easy. If anybody is interested, I can post an eagle board and schematic, as well as our labview code and the code we used on the atmega. The atmega has the arduino bootloader so it can be programmed through the arduino enviornment.