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Building your own Ambient Light system, using the LED Wiz piece (I need help!)

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Blanka:

Just use an Arduino with some good power Mosfets. Cheaper and easier to program for stand alone use.

bleedscarlet:

arduino is more expensive, I don't have any more money to spare on free projects for a while

Blanka:

The arduino itself is cheaper (30$), but it depends on what you want to do. If you want a stand-alone 3 channel PWM RGB ambient light that runs by itself your personal pattern on some power leds (1A or more/channel), using direct input (some switches, a temp sensor, a touch sensor, RGB input) Arduino is easier and cheaper, and delivers 256 steps of brightness per channel. If you want to drive many lights up to 500mA/channel, use basic preprogrammed patterns, and don't mind the computer being on all the time, the LED wiz is a good choice.

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