Continued from Part 1
Checkout Part 2
I'll be honest I got bored waiting for the LED light strip to arrive so I went to my local Walmart to see what kind of LED light strip related items they had. To my surprise they had a couple LED strips for ~$5 each. Being a man of caution I bought two of them, sped home locked the doors and shut the blinds. I found a USB phone charger and connected the thing using a connector that came with the light strip. For $5 they immediately exceeded my expectations.
Hey look! Lights!
Hooking the LED light strip up to one of the Arduino controllers worked very well and was easier than I expected.
Perfect! Being able to control the LEDs with the Arduino controller means that we can proceed with positioning the lights in such a way that gives the room a nice RGB glow that we can control with the Arduino. After deciding on a layout I then had to figure out how I was going to control the lights.
Making the Arduino control the LED strip would be done via an arduino sketch. This sketch will essentially evaluate a word and match it to an appropriate action. This conceptually will allow the LED light strip to respond to what we tell it.
Links to the Github where the code for this stage lives is below:
https://github.com/superconfused1/Arduino-Light-Control
Here is what Phase 1 looks like after it is all completed using the $5 LED strip from the store!
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