This is a simple controller for an addressable RGB LED strip. It uses an Arduino board, at least one button and a few potentiometers to control the color of the LED strip. This can be useful if you want to have a controller for addressable RGB LED strips in your car, but don't want to spend a lot of money on a controller with a lot of features you don't need like WiFi or Bluetooth.
The prototype of this controller.
- Cycle through the different pre-programmed effects with a button
- Control the led strip with few potentiometers, for now, you can control:
- Brightness
- Color
- Speed of the effect
- A miscellaneous value that can be used to control the effect in different ways
Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/stef011/argb-led-car-controller.gitOpen the project in your favorite IDE, I use PlatformIO with Visual Studio Code.
You'll need to setup few things before uploading the code on your arduino board:
| Parameter | File | Description |
|---|---|---|
| LED_PIN | main.cpp | The pin of the led strip |
| LED_COUNT | main.cpp | The number of leds in the led strip |
| MAX_BRIGHTNESS | main.cpp | The maximum brightness of the led strip |
| MAX_CURRENT | LEDStrip.h | The maximum current the ledStrip is allowed to draw |
| POT1_PIN | Parameters.h | Pin of the Brightness potentiometer |
| POT2_PIN | Parameters.h | Pin of the Color potentiometer |
| POT3_PIN | Parameters.h | Pin of the Speed or secondary color, saturation or fade speed potentiometer |
| POT4_PIN | Parameters.h | Pin of the effect speed or length potentiometer |
| BUTTON_PREV_PIN | Controller.h | The pin of the "previous" button |
| BUTTON_NEXT_PIN | Controller.h | The pin of the "next" button |
| LED_TYPE | LEDStrip.h | The type of the leds you're using |
| COLOR_ORDER | LEDStrip.h | The color order of the leds you're using |
If you want to change the type of Leds you're using, you'll need to change the LED_TYPE parameter in the LEDStrip.h file.
Some types of leds have a different order of the RGB values, for instance the WS2812B leds have the order GRB, so you'll need to change the COLOR_ORDER parameter in the LEDStrip.h file.
Note: The wiring diagram is for the Arduino Micro Pro, but you can use any Arduino board.
Please check the Contribution guide file for more information.
This is a work in progress, so it may not work as expected. If you find any bugs, please open an issue. This software is licensed under the MIT License, so you can use it for whatever you want. The software is provided as is, without any warranty of any kind.