3,2,1... Blink !!!
Big thanks to Sandro for tutoring me on that one :)
There is an option to connect LEDs to the IMU, using the same pins we going to control 12V LED Strips :)
You can get those at Hobby-King:
Next we need this guy:
Important thing is not to go over 700mA, on all channels. So the LED strips can't be longer than 9 LEDs per arm.
check LEDs datasheet, maybe you can use more (or less)
Here is some pictures of the process :)
Green,Red and 2X Blue, wires going to LDE Strips.
Cut the long legs :) and shrink tube it.
And you done:)
Here is the leds.pde, it have that blinking part in it, but you can go crazy here :)
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Comment by Ritchie on July 2, 2011 at 3:41am -
By far the most exciting post of a very pants personal week for me thank you for cheering me up.
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Developer Comment by Sandro Benigno on July 2, 2011 at 6:05am -
Yeah, it's working! Congratulations by the Disco Club Quad! :)
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3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on July 2, 2011 at 5:23pm -
Excellent! Added to the manual here.
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Comment by Jason Wise on July 3, 2011 at 4:47am -
Nice, is there a bigger version of the IC that I could use?
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Comment by Kevin Vertucio on July 4, 2011 at 6:46am -
haha! that is pretty cool! now just needs to dance to music ;)
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Developer Comment by Adam Rivera on January 17, 2012 at 11:05am -
Nice work! What is the limiting factor in the 700mA number? I have an octo configuration and I would like to use 8 LED strips.
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Comment by Nafru on March 9, 2012 at 2:47pm -
Ok, here is my stupid question, What do you do wtih the LEDS.PDE file when you get that far?
I assume that it is fed into the Mission Planner some how, but how/where?
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Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on March 9, 2012 at 3:09pm -
No, this is a compile time option. I'm working on something that is usable from within MP. Hopefully out with the next release of Arducopter.
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Comment by Nafru on March 9, 2012 at 3:18pm
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Cool.
If you need a test subject for the code at all, I am interested.
I just built a little board based on this mod for the LED's that I would like to put out as a do it yourself build and would like to use this code for running it.
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Comment by Jason Wise on March 10, 2012 at 1:30am
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