If i just purchase a normal RGB led strip from ebay (4 pins for connection) 1) Are the 4 pins Power, Red, Green, Blue? 2) Do i just feed 12v (from battery) into the power, and IOIO board can output some power to RGB to control the colour?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/5M-10M-15M-5050-3528-RGB-White-SMD-Light-LED-Strip-12V-LED-Strip-24-44Key-IR-/251567799958?var=&hash=item3a929bfe96:m:mAXiaZkR5b-xUqxF3IXlMew On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:37:32 UTC+11, Ytai wrote: > > The IOIO doesn't support the NeoPixel protocol. If you're into changing > the IOIO firmware, that shouldn't be hard to achieve. I have reference code > for that if you want, but first make sure you can compile and install the > stock firmware and that you understand where the new code should go. > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Fried panseller <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> LED STRIP: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1461 >> My IOIO Board: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12633 >> >> on the Adafruit LED Strip website it says >> >> - Second, to get high density, the controller chip is inside the LED, >> which is kind of cool, but also means that the chip only uses a single >> pin >> for input and a single pin for output. The protocol used is very very >> timing-specific and can only be controlled by microcontrollers with >> highly >> repeatable 100nS timing precision. We have example code for using with >> the >> Arduino Uno/Mega microcontroller at 8MHz and 16MHz, and with a little >> effort you can use with the Raspberry Pi >> <https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi>, or Beagle >> Bone Black <http://www.nycresistor.com/2013/07/27/ledscape/>, but it >> will not work with the Basic Stamp, NETduino, any other >> interpreted/virtual >> machine microprocessor or any processor slower than 8 MHz. For those >> processors, check our LPD8806-based digital LED strip which has >> SPI-like input/output <https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=lpd8806&b=1> and >> works easily with Pi, NETduino, and other processors. >> - Third, just because you have all those pixels doesn't mean you have >> the RAM for it - the entire strip must be buffered in memory, and we've >> found many Arduino UNO projects only have about 1500 bytes of RAM >> available >> after all the extras are included - enough for about 500 LED pixels. If >> you >> want to drive the entire strip and have some other libraries included, >> use >> a Mega. >> >> So I am not sure if it will work >> >> If it does work, Do I just connect all the controlling wires to the IOIO >> board, connect the Power wire from the LED strip to a power source, and >> watch all the magic happen? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ioio-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
