Control a RadioShack Light Strip with an Arduino and Python
Project description
Lightwriter is a combination of a Ardunio sketch and some Python classes for controlling an Arduino over a serial connection from python. This code is designed for use with a RadioShack Tricolor LED strip (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=22128606). Much of the code is borrowed from the RadioShack source (at http://blog.radioshack.com/2013/06/tricolor-led-strip/) as well as some community adjustments (http://pastebin.com/eEB61uWV).
Originally, this project was written to create a Rasberry Pi and Arduino device for displaying Nagios alerts. However, this code could be easily re-applied for a lot of more fun use cases.
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