hello everyone.
I'm hoping with some direction regarding a project i'm about to embark on. I do work in IT but know very little about programming and have never had to program an Arduino before.
I was to build a 'start up sequence' for a project that when I power the device on (device also powers LEDs and Arduino) that it goes through powering on LEDs in a sequence.
eg, for simplicity sake lets say I have 3 rectangle cutouts and 3 LED's behind each cutout.
What i'd ideally like to do its slow pulse LED's 1-3 behind first rectangle cutout 3 times, then LED's turn solid 100% bright.
Then LED's 4-6 behind second cutout pulse 3 times then turn solid 100% bright.
Finally LEDs 7-9 behind the third cutout pulse 3 times then turn solid 100% bright.
I've been trying to do a search and have some reading to do on PWM controlling the LED's however I do have an Ambilight config and thought it would be good to use a WS2812 strip for this project. Any searches around programming these strips seem to be just changing the entire strip various colours which isn't what I am trying to achieve.
Any guidance or direction would be greatly appreciated, or any related projects you know if I can go and have a read of, generally I very good at taking something of someone else's and modifying it to my needs.
FYI: I have an Arduino Uno now but am happy to buy another, ideally I would like it to be as small as possible.
Many thanks,
Dayle.