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Re: Addressable LED lights without Arduino

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Originally Posted by stinglikeabee View Post
I think what you're asking for is more along the line of a regular RGB LED strip such as this one (also with remote for $3 more here). You can power each RGB LED color with an independent 0-4V signal, mixing the colors will result in a emitted color for the entire strip (cut to length). You could build a small power circuit and trigger power to the lights with a mosfet.
This is what our team did using the controller provided (the $3 more). To take it a step further we hijacked the PWM lines in the controller itself and fed those straight to the cRIO digital I/O (set to PWM mode) which allowed us to control the color of the entire strip at run time without any extra processor board.
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