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Posted by Max Levine on July 2, 2011 at 3:16am

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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Jason Wise March 10, 2012 at 12:30am

Go here

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/u4eake-s-showleds-arming-and-lo...

Its the bees knees
Nafru March 9, 2012 at 2:18pm

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.
Rob_Lefebvre March 9, 2012 at 2:09pm

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.
Nafru March 9, 2012 at 1:47pm

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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Adam Rivera January 17, 2012 at 10:05am

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.
Kevin Vertucio July 4, 2011 at 6:46am

haha! that is pretty cool! now just needs to dance to music ;)
Jason Wise July 3, 2011 at 4:47am

Nice, is there a bigger version of the IC that I could use?
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Chris Anderson July 2, 2011 at 5:23pm

Excellent! Added to the manual here.
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Sandro Benigno July 2, 2011 at 6:05am

Yeah, it's working! Congratulations by the Disco Club Quad! :)
Ritchie 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.