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Re: Controlling 12V lights via arduino

With 'dumb' LED strips that just have a common positive terminal and negative terminals for the three colors, you wont get the individually addressable LEDs as show in the video, but you still can control the color of the entire strip.

See this,
http://bildr.org/2012/03/rfp30n06le-arduino/
and
http://www.jerome-bernard.com/blog/2...by-an-arduino/
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