Help with addressable LEDs

Hi, our team just received the RGB LED Light Strip, 8.2ft, Individually Addressable from AndyMark and we are trying to figure out how to plug the strip to the roboRio.

Thanks

We have a roll very similar to this. We took a PWM cable, cut the male end off and just soldered the wires to the LED strip and then plugged in the female end to the roboRio.

This will help with the programming
https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/software/actuators/addressable-leds.html

As for the wiring, choose a PWM output on the RoboRio and connect that to the digital input of the strip, then connect the strip’s power and ground to a 5V (Double check it is 5V) output on a voltage regulator.
See 2020 Led Wiring also

Be careful doing this as the PWM outputs on the RoboRio are 6V. Some strips are ok with this, but keep that in mind if it is a 5V strip. Also be wary of and current limitations if you have lots of LEDs.

+1 to this.

For our team, we made sure we weren’t pulling too much current. However, we are only using around 50-100 LEDs on the strip.

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