Programmable LED Light STrip
J. Sante / Mar 2017This was a quickie project to get some backlight effects on the arcade machine.
Demo:
Here I'm pressing a button on the breadboard to switch between the various display modes. Note they're all red, green and blue -- I wanted to get some cool combo effects but I found that this particular strip doesn't do combos well -- orange, yellow, purple, pink etc were so washed out you couldn't tell what they were.
Hardware
| Arduino UNO R2 | $13 |
| 3.2ft 60-pixel WS2812B RGB LED Strip | $13 |
| Breadboard | $3.00 |
| Breadboard | $3.00 |
| Old 5V cell phone adapter (connector cut off) | Had this lying around |
| Total: | $29 |
This project is based on this excellent tutorial...
...but with an added on/off switch and a button to change display modes.
The switch just goes between the +5V in from the adapter and the positive power rail on the breadboard.
The button was configured via this tutorial.
Prototype:
Software
Here's the C code in its entirety:
Just open it up in the Arduino IDE, FastLED Library and run it.