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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

We also bought these http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...p age_o00_s02

and do not know how to wire/program them. It has a standard 3 pin header but that is about all I know about them.

That LED string uses the WS2812B individually addressable LEDs. They are also sold by Adafruit, and on their site you'll find links to more tutorials, code examples, and projects using them than one could read in a week.

You'll probably want to get somebody up to speed on Arduino programming to control the LEDs. It will be difficult to get the tight 800kHz timing they require out of the roboRIO while it's busy running the robot.

I'm an EE, but only write code when threatened and was able to get one of those strings to work.