Controling specific RGB color on strip.

Other Hardware LEDs and Multiplexing
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Hello...

Newbie Question here.

Are there any pre-soldered strips of rgb leds that can be custom programmed so that each led can change to a specific color at a specific time? Something like this? http://www.dealextreme.com/p/rgb-multicolored-1-meter-30-led-6w-light-strip-dc-12v-14965

I like to be able to write a program that says, at this time, display this color, at this light.... so that all 150 or 300 leds would refresh at the same time with unique colors. This would be reading from a file, so as to say not random and not chasing.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to best control it?

Again, thanks, I know this is a total newb question.

-Peter Sid

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so that all 150 or 300 leds would refresh at the same time with unique colors.

So that means you have to provide 150 to 300 different control signals with each LED wired up separately to a unique control signal.
That is not something that is easy to do as it requires a lot of hardware.

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Thanks for the quick response....

Right... Think of it as a 150x1 matrix. I know there are some ways to port an animation to a matrix. Is there a way I could do this on an LED strip? Or are they not wired like that?

Thanks!

-Peter Sid

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Try here:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,59866.0.html

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Think of it as a 150x1 matrix.

That doesn't help, you still need 150 outputs to control a 150 X 1 matrix.