Hi.
I am an absolute novice so technical jargon will fly over my head. Employment opportunity:)
This is for an architectural model where up to 1500 individual units will have their own addressable light installed. The end result is to be used by the potential client(home buyer) to select individual units or groups of units on a touch screen and the corresponding lights will light up on the model.
Must be able to use a tablet to operate selections, We want a tasteful user interface
In addition to this, there will be large display screens that are also connected so that when an apartment is selected corresponding images will be displayed on the wall tv.
Software to connect the sales data to the model, so that when an apartment is sold this will be updated on the model's lighting.
Yes, but with 1500 LEDs then you need the Arduino Mega not any of the other types, like the Uno, Nano, Micro and Leonardo due to the amount of memory you need.
While some of the more advanced Arduinos would work these are powered from 3.3 volts and you would have to add a bit of extra circuitry to drive the LED strips because these strips need a 5V signal to drive them.
You mean there is an employment opportunity for someone here on the forum to help you design & build this idea? There is a forum section that is appropriate for employment offers. Say the word and your topic can be moved there.
In short, no. An Arduino could play a part in the whole design, such as controlling the lights, but not all that other stuff.
You probably need to be looking at a small PC or laptop to run the whole show. Maybe a raspberry pi or similar.
But this is a very complex project, I hope you have a big budget!
I didn't need to read this far to offer my opinion that is... in agreement with @PaulRB .
Even if you were an Arduino wizard or found someone who claimed to be, this will be a nightmare on a limited resource central processing unit.
Just considering the level of comfort obtained by sticking with "real" machines for a soup to nuts solution like this would make me suggest a small PC, laptop or as @PaulRB sez
Maybe a raspberry pi or similar.
Just not so small that developing for it is something that must be done on another machine… googling for help or visiting here very much included.
If you do this yourself, break the project into manageable testable blocks and get them working independently of each other, each built with doing the combining of all the perfect parts later in mind.
A professional should know what to do and only need the time to do it. Specification in much greater detail than your overview will be necessary and should ideally proceed any software development, as well as hardware acquisitions beyond getting some LEDs in to test for aesthetics and such similar experiments as may be deemed informative.
For which an Arduino might be useful, even if it never got into the final product.
