digitalcircuit / ActinicArduino

Arduino bridge to control strands of LED lights with your computer

Actinic Arduino

Actinic Arduino provides an interface between strands of LED lights and your computer, primarily intended for the Actinic lighting controller, but usable by any program that can talk to an Arduino.

Compatibility

• LED strips
  • Adafruit DotStars
  • Anything the FastLED library supports
  • Modified GE G-35 Christmas lights
• Status indicators
  • Simple LED (most Arduino-compatible microcontrollers)
  • DotStar pixel (e.g. as on the Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express)

Installing

• Configure your hardware in device_config.h
  • Includes LED strands, status indicator, and button
• To be done

Usage

• To be done

Building

Tools needed:

• Arduino IDE v1.5 or later
  • Tested: Arduino v1.8.8
• One or more of the following Arduino libraries (place in Arduino sketch directory's 'libraries' folder)
  • Adafruit DotStar Library (modified from original with hardware brightness control)
  • FastLED Library
  • G-35 Arduino Library (modified for slightly better performance)
• To be done