Drive LED Strip With PcDuino
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Its holiday season!
We will hang the lights again. In this post, we are going to show how to control the LED strip, and open a whole one possibility of intelligent decoration. To drive the LED strip, we need a LED strip driver, which can be found at LinkSprite Wiki.
Wire Diaram
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On the DATA in side of LED strip driver, there is a 12V/2A power supply supplying power.
The red line of strip is connected to ‘+’, and black color is connected to ‘B’ channel.
Use Arduino IDE Comes With PcDuino
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Lunch the Arduino IDE that comes with pcDuino, and enter into the code:
The code used above can be downloaded here.
Downloads
Run Code
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Click ‘upload’ to compile and run the code, the following screen will pop up:
LED strip will begin to breath:
It will keep going until we press ‘CONTROL+C’.
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