Creation Station: La Quinta's MakerSpace

3 Examples of Sourcing Basic Electronic Parts A strip of RGB style LEDs, 1 SITUATION 1:             "We need more color and light in our lives!"      A common project for the modern electronics hobbyist is fun, colorful room lighting. There are many ways to come to a solution for this project, but we will only look at one. You can use a strip of APA102 RGB LEDs controlled by an Arduino to produce a programmatically controlled light sequence to fill a room with lights which might enhance other entertainment or be nice to look at on its own. You will also need an adequate power supply of the appropriate voltage (In the case of most APA102 that will be 5v but be sure to double check. Arduino are most commonly 5v). Be sure to buy a high quality power supply. You can also commonly find strips such as these available with a controller and power supply if you don't want to have a whole bunch of fun programming your own lights. These ...

Makerspace Live! - Pi/Arduino Blink A Transcript REFERENCES: https://raspberrypihq.com/making-a-led-blink-using-the-raspberry-pi-and-python/ Transcript:       Will:  "Hello Makers! Today on Makercraft Live we're going to make some LEDs blink! Blinking LEDs on and off is a common introductory task when learning about microcontrollers. We will be performing the same blinking LED example on both an Arduino nano and a Raspberry Pi 4 in order to show that although there are fundamental differences between these microcomputers they may also be used to produce similar results. We will also walk through the very basics of setting up a Raspberry Pi. We may occasionally venture into topics which are outside of the scope of this tutorial but we will try to keep it simple. Be sure to visit our Facebook and other social media and be sure to come in once we are again open to the public. Here's the stuff you're going to need: A Raspberry Pi: any edition ...