Hi, I am programmer and new to electonics and BBB, so please be gentle with me :)
I have a project that involves controlling 48 RGB LEDS and want to be able to control color and brightness and animation of the LEDs based on other sensory inputs. eg changing colors, brightness and patterns when an imput sensor detects a change in temperature After some searching around I have found the Adafruit 24-Channel 12-bit PWM LED Driver - SPI Interface here https://www.adafruit.com/product/1429 So I am contemplating getting 6 of these and chaining them together to be able to control the 144 channels (3 x 48) required to drive the LEDs. My questions are : Is this the right way to go or is there a better way ? For example are there other breakout boards that can drive 144 channels on there own or is 24 channels the maximum available ? Or do I need to build a custom circuit for this ? There are arduino libraries available for these LED Driver breakout boards but I need to run on BBB so can anyone tell me how hard it would be to adapt the libraries for BBB from the arduino ones ? Or would it be better to do this on an arduino and pass the logic through to that from the BBB ? Any other thoughts on additional hardware that might be required to make this work. If anyone has done similar projects I would be extremely grateful for any advise or pitfalls thanks lynton -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
