Arduino/LED Intial Support

[gerth2]

We like pretty lights on our robot

These are usually run off of a separate processor called an Arduino. It's programmed in a different language than java - here's last year's for reference

Here's a tutorial on making an arduino control those LED's

Here's the code editor and toolchain for Arduino

We should have arduinos around programming area, see if you can find one.

I'm not sure what we have in terms of LED strips, but we'll need to get them hooked up to be powered from the test board and everything - poke a mentor for help if needed. Especially once we order them :)

Get some cool looking patterns put together. FOr now, we're just looking for nifty/pretty ideas. anything you come up with is fair game, ask a mentor if you're not sure how to make code to do a thing happen.

In a future activitiyl, we'll work on having multiple patterns available, and picking them from the roboRIO.

[imdunne8]

Basic example for getting started with a button: https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-Button-with-no-resistor/

The outside two wires of the Vex button (white and black) are the ones that should be used, and it doesn't really matter if you reverse them

[imdunne8]

https://howtomechatronics.com/tutorials/arduino/how-to-control-ws2812b-individually-addressable-leds-using-arduino/

Scroll to the code in the first example. You'll need to copy it into the Arduino IDE and modify NUM_LEDS and LED_PIN before loading it.

[imdunne8]

Quite a few interesting pattern ideas (with code) here: https://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/arduino/adruino-led-strip-effects/

[imdunne8]

Implementing it in our 2022 code will look very similar to 2020. Controller Code Implementation in Robot.java