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10 years, 9 months ago.
I need some kind of guid help.
Hello. I'm from norway and will try to explain my very best. I am kinda new here to this programing, and i want to learn but it's kinda hard when i am all alone. I am very addicted to LED lights. And have seen some cool videos on youtube.
What i want to do is getting an led strip (RGB) and program it to make some cool effects.
I know i need an led strip (RGB), mbed - LPC1768 (Cortex-M3) for programming and maybe an (adapter 230V - Output 12V.)
Plis tell me if there's anything other i need:) And when programming.. whats the difference between C and C++ ?
Here's a video of what i kinda want to do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D1IrqJl1zE
Hope you can explain on an easy way that i can understand. Thx ;-)
1 Answer
10 years, 9 months ago.
You will also need power for your mbed. 12V is a bit too high for the mbed, so either use USB power for it, or add a 12V->5V converter. When buying a led strip you need to watch it is an individual adressable one.
Largest difference between C and C++ is that C++ is object oriented: In C++ you can make a class, in C you can't. See: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/classes/. You can use almost all C code in C++ compiler without modifications.