yeah i just realised i don't think it is power rgb for the 4 connectors haha. How will I make it work with IOIO by like sliding a bar on my android phone? The only thing I have learned so far is turning on 3 diffenrent LEDS by buttons on my android phone
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 00:09:46 UTC+11, Fried panseller wrote: > > 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]> >> 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]. >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- 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.
