I'm not familiar with this specific kit, but looking on the AM page, I found this sentence (note the html link to GitHub for code):
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Originally Posted by am3010 page
Default code for our last kit (am-2640) can be found at our GitHub page, we are currently working on updating this with the new chipset. You can use the code posted to do this yourself. |
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have looked at addressable LEDs before, and will be doing so again this week as a part of our air cannon lighting. The basic idea is that you send a signal down the line that's roughly equivalent to "Set LED #40 to be on/off/off [red]". Then, the first LED sends "turn on LED #39 to 'on/off/off [red]", and so on down the line until an LED finally gets the "turn on LED #0 to be on/off/off [red]", and it becomes red. As I recall, an arduino is up to sending these signals to a small number of LED strips in a reasonable time frame, if you are happy with fairly simple colors (basic 8, red green blue black white cyan magenta yellow or basic 27, which includes violet, orange, gray, and a few others as well as the basic 8). If you want to control a large number of strips (or a photo frame), or have a rich color palette, you will need a beefier processor or (even better) a graphics card designed to drive these sorts of LED arrays.