Hello all, first time "Arduinoer" here so please be indulgent with me.
We are an upholstery manufacture and since the beginning of the company the way fabrics are cut has evolved with new technologies (from manual cutting to industrial cutting machines) but its quite different for the way we lay these fabrics on tables beforehand; To make it short, I was asked by to look into the feasibility of using LED strips to automate a task that is actually manually done.
What I'm looking for is a way to lit up only a small part of a LED strip (only white leds) that would be around 60 feet long (explaining the reasons would make the post much longer). To instruct which led to be lit up I was thinking of storing these measure in a database where each of the patron would be stored with the needed measures, or maybe even directly from the cutting software, that's not the point of my post (yet). I'm pretty sure that programming wise the Arduino software could easily handle that.
What module would be best suited to handle that task? Data would be transfered to the Arduino module with a USB connection.
Thank you all for your time.
Michel