https://github.com/digitalcircuit/actinicarduino

Arduino bridge to control strands of LED lights with your computer
https://github.com/digitalcircuit/actinicarduino

actinic arduino led-controller

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Arduino bridge to control strands of LED lights with your computer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/digitalcircuit/actinicarduino
• Owner: digitalcircuit
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-10-04T08:21:58.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-12T22:55:23.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-30T10:38:11.302Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: actinic, arduino, led-controller
• Language: C++
• Size: 47.9 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
Actinic Arduino [![Build Status](https://github.com/digitalcircuit/ActinicArduino/actions/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg)][ci-status-page]

===============

Actinic Arduino provides an interface between strands of LED lights and your computer, primarily intended for the [Actinic lighting controller](https://github.com/digitalcircuit/actinic), but usable by any program that can talk to an Arduino.

## Compatibility

* LED strips

  * [Adafruit DotStars](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-dotstar-leds)

  * Anything the [FastLED library supports](https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Overview#chipsets)

  * [Modified GE G-35 Christmas lights](https://web.archive.org/web/20190322170653/http://www.deepdarc.com/2010/11/27/hacking-christmas-lights/)

* Status indicators

  * Simple LED (most Arduino-compatible microcontrollers)

  * DotStar pixel (e.g. as on the [Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express](https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-adafruit-itsybitsy-m4))

## Installing

* Configure your hardware in [`device_config.h`](device_config.h)

  * Includes LED strands, status indicator, and button

* *To be done*

## Usage

* *To be done*

## Building

Tools needed:

* Arduino IDE v1.5 or later

  * Tested: Arduino v1.8.8

* One or more of the following Arduino libraries (*place in Arduino sketch directory's 'libraries' folder*)

  * [Adafruit DotStar Library](https://github.com/digitalcircuit/Adafruit_DotStar/tree/ft-hw-limit-brightness)  (*modified [from original](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_DotStar) with [hardware brightness control](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_DotStar/pull/26)*)

  * [FastLED Library](https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED)

  * [G-35 Arduino Library](https://github.com/digitalcircuit/G35ArduinoLibrary) (*modified for slightly better performance*)

* *To be done*

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