OlyMEGA

LEDs and Arduino Part 2

October 11, 2012 · 7:00 PM

This is going to be an introduction to LPD8806 based strips and ambitiously transition to a mini demo on how to migrate projects off Arduino (and clones) for size and cost reasons. Gotta free it up for the next project!

- LED strip theory of operation, hookups, gotchas

- Install LPD8806 Arduino library,

- working with a short strip

- working with a long strip (memory, power issues)

- other people's code (beltkit variants)

(break for triumphant blinking, retinal recovery)

- migrating off Arduino to a bare bones ATMEGA328 and support parts

- smaller Atmel chips discussed/demo'd as time permits

As in part one, a laptop and some flavor of Arduino or clone are useful. Protoboards are good if you have them.

We will have some lovely (and locally produced!) LeOlympia boards for sale and a loaner clone or three. This is going to be fairly "on rails" with programming limited to modifying course code and extant examples.

Cost: FREE for members, $10 for general public

Materials note: some short strips of programmable LEDs will be used in class; longer strips will be available for sale for less than they cost on Adafruit and elsewhere. Barebones Arduino parts also available cheap, with free bootloader programming.

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Jim Bellinger

Good use of time. Just to go over basic ideas and answer individual questions.

0 · October 12
Polymorph

Jim, I'm bringing your LEDs, Arduino prototyping board, and USB to serial for the remote control link.

0 · October 11
April Atwood

Sounds like fun! Makes me wish I lived in Oly ...

0 · October 4