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Re: Fancy RGBish lights on robot/cart/etc
We have not used any programmable/addressable LED strips on our robots, though we have used them on mascots and other projects. If you do want to use addressable LEDs on the robot, I absolutely recommend a secondary processor so that the roboRIO is not spending time switching individual LEDs. Barring a significant change in the controls rules, LED controls CAN be outsourced to an external processor; the rules have been written to require that signals to actuators come from the roboRIO; lighting, sensors, and computing/processing have traditionally been available for offloading to a coprocessor.
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