LED Lights for the Robot (what do you use??!?!)

[Garten Haeska]

What about just having three switches on the robot, just for the 3 base colors, would that work, and does anyone have an example?

[ablatner]

We've been custom-making our ring lights for the past several years. In 2011, it seemed as if we were one of the only teams, and then in 2012 everyone had them. We just wire up 12 LED's on a circular cutout of perfboard. There are 3 series sets of 4 parallel ~3.5V LED's with appropriate resistors. We use white LED's, but you can use any color. The only restrictions are that it doesn't interfere with communications, other robots' vision, and other commonsense bad things.

[theawesome1730]

Our sister team 1987 had told me about controlling LEDs via solenoid breakout card. It works very easily for 7 color RGB strips according to them. I am not sure of the specifics, or even who to tell you to talk to. If I can get more information I'll post it.

[Becca334]

We use these
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/f...rips-and-bars/

And get blue/red/white.
The white we hook up to the PDB so it's always on, and it's in our chassis to illuminate it. The red/blue we put into any type of mechanism we have and they're both hooked up to spikes. We have a light switch that goes to a Digital I/O port that way programmers don't recompile code each match, we flip the light switch one way and its red when the robot is enabled - other way blue.

As an added bonus, turn both lights on for autonomous and since they're right next to one another, it turns it purple.

http://i.imgur.com/z9lww3N.jpg They look pretty snazzy and gives a different effect from all the other teams that mostly light up at the bottom.