Help with RGB Lighting on Robot

[motherrussia]

Originally Posted by Thad House

The arduinos are programmed using C. Lots of documentation can be found all over the internet. A good place to start either the arduino website or AdaFruits learning system, which has alot of information on the RGB lights they sell and how to hook them up to an arduino. That was linked in the post above.

As for power, I think the easiest way to power an arduino this year is to just plug it straight into the USB ports on the RoboRIO. This will allow an easy communication method between the 2 devices, and makes it so you do not have to solder any wiring. Just be sure if you do this to NOT power the lights off of that power supply, and instead use a separate 12v to 5v converter to power the lights.

Cool. Thanks for everything.