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Re: Robot RGB LEDs

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Originally Posted by gerthworm View Post
To be honest, next year I'd like to use an arduino to drive them just to not soak up processor time on our main controller.

https://learn.adafruit.com/introduci...t/introduction

I use an Arduino Trinket ($7) to drive Adafruit Neopixel arrays.
I use DIO ports from the MXP interface to set the various states for the lights.
This is low cost, nearly weight free, and allows someone to develop all of the lighting states and effects in parallel without needing a Roborio. Works great.
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