Hey guys
New to the community, hopefully looking to build a few projects powered with simhub in near future. The first one I want to tackle is my RGB rev limiter lights.
I've seen the tutorial offered on how to setup a small shift light on top of the steering wheel housing using 8-bit RGB lighting. and I wanted to take a slightly different take on the shift lights if possible. I have a 5m roll of 12 volt RGB strip lighting just sitting around doing nothing and was considering adding sections of lighting to my race sim frame, and the backing of my TV to illuminate the "footwell", area between me and TV and behind TV.
I'm new to Arduino but from the research I have done I believe there is a concern I will fry the Arduino using any 12 volt strip lighting without setting up MOSFET's to protect the Arduino. In this setup I'm not looking for them to act sequentially, more than happy for every LED to flash the same colour at the same time as they progress through the rev range.
The LED strip I have is SMD 5050 LED and currently have a couple of Arduino Uno's to use for projects.
Can anyone shed some light on this and if I'll need to create the additional boards with MOSFET's in order to make it work? And more importantly, will my idea even work or am I aiming for the stars?
Any and all advice, feedback and help would be greatly appreciated?
Kind Regards
clawhammer386
@fredlepp that looks similar to what I'm trying to do, although I'm happy for it too act as if there is only a single led and all leds flash the same colour at the same time. The idea here is that it can be used as ambient lighting behind screens, and around racing cockpit to see in more of the perifial vision.
Do you have any links to items you've used making yours and and diagrams?