Robot lighting

[Joseph Smith]

If you want individually controllable RGB LEDs I would suggest one of these strips:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/306
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1138
and if you want a simpler strip that's RGB but controlled all together you might go for this.
http://www.adafruit.com/products/285
or if you wanted more local lighting you could try the segments.
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1426

I feel like controlling them with the CRio would be fairly simple; I've programmed an LED strip like the first one in C++ on and Arduino with very little coding experience and it worked fine.
Anyway, hope this helped.

[cad321]

I am almost certain we would go with analog LED strips to keep costs down and to keep things simple (first time doing this after all). After taking some look around I wondered if these here would work. They appear to use the same connectors as the one on adarfruit however considerably cheaper. $16.00 for 5m instead of the $16.00 for 1m on adafruit.

[Joseph Smith]

That would probably work, you would just have to identify the control and power leads when you wire it up.

[Bryce Paputa]

I believe that the addressable lights are worth the extra money, once you have the addressable lights, you can turn them into something very helpful and very pretty. For example, this year we (are working on making it so we) have lights that display our shooter speed. You can't really do that with the analog ones, it's much easier to tell if all of the LEDs are green instead of white than to tell if they are the correct shade of green. About the I2C, we have been working on it and I created a document showing what we messed up and how to make it work, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...HpYhygl2I/edit.