LED RGB Lighting - Chief Delphi

08-08-2016, 17:38

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Re: LED RGB Lighting

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Originally Posted by Flipflop13

Pretty cool find. We used neopixles in the past with an arduino co-processor, but if you can just plug them right into the rio that would save a bunch of effort.

Do you externally power the LEDs or use roboRIO power?

We personally haven't used the DotStars, but we used NeoPixel equivalents in the past. We used one of the 12V to 5V regulators on our 2014 bot to drive them there through a Arduino.

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