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Re: controlling LED strips

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Originally Posted by otherguy View Post
They also have a newer version of the strips (NeoPixel) which use a different LED driver, long story short, you can get more LEDs for less money with the NeoPixel version. These weren't available until recently though, so I have no direct experience with them.
Based on requiring timing of 100ns, you wouldn't be able to use the NexPixel ones directly with the cRIO, so you'd have to use an arduino or another co-processor.
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