07.06 LED Strip Wiring In Class Exercise Assignment

Assignment Deliverables

1. Follow in class instructions to fabricate wiring harness with crimp connections to power an addressable LED strip and send data from a microcontroller

Overview

LEDs are fun to control but if you use individual LEDs then your microcontrollwer will quickly run out of GPIO pins. Addressable LEDs overcome this limitation by sending a signal through all of the LEDs that tells each individual LED what color and brightness to operate at. This usually only requires 1 to 2 wires.

Using the fastLED library examples , enter the correct LED protocol, LED pin number on the Arduino, and the number of LEDs. We are using strips of 7 LEDs that work with WS2811 protocol using only 1 data line.

Resources

fastLED Example

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