Touch board or circuit playground with RGB LEDS

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Touch board or circuit playground with RGB LEDS

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Can I use my Audifruit touch board or circuit playground to program and run individually assignable RGB LED strips?
I just want to make sure before I buy a strip RGB LEDs.
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Re: Touch board or circuit playground with RGB LEDS

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Which RGB strips were you looking at?

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Re: Touch board or circuit playground with RGB LEDS

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Well I was looking at the 30 count strips that audifruit sells. The ones that have individually addressable lights. Adafruit NeoPixel Digital RGB LED Strip - Black 30 LED - BLACK
I was thinking about this one in particular

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Re: Touch board or circuit playground with RGB LEDS

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Yes, you can do this. You would want to hook them up to one of the external pins. Tony D's arc reactor project is a good example of how to add external NeoPixels to a Circuit Playground. He documented it in a series of live streams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncCHkEkbzbY
and here's the code:
https://github.com/adafruit/CircuitPlay ... er_Reactor

Can't say for sure with the TouchBoard. Seems like it should be possible since it has an 32u4 processor and the NeoPixel library works on that.

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