NanoKontrol LEDs
NanoKontrol LEDs Posted on: 09.03.2011 by Shana Minsk Been worrking on my plans for a super mod of my NanoKontrol for a few months. Basically going to put it in a box about 5 times bigger, arcade button it up and change all the faders into knobs. I want to keep the ability to change scenes as it's part of my mapping I'm planning and I want to keep the visual feedback given by the LEDs.My question is does anybody know what LEDs I will need to use, as I want to have 4 different colours. | |
| Joan Kollmorgen 09.03.2011 |
Originally Posted by DjNecro
Is the color determined by which pins you connect to ? Thanks |
| Shana Minsk 09.03.2011 | Been worrking on my plans for a super mod of my NanoKontrol for a few months. Basically going to put it in a box about 5 times bigger, arcade button it up and change all the faders into knobs. I want to keep the ability to change scenes as it's part of my mapping I'm planning and I want to keep the visual feedback given by the LEDs. My question is does anybody know what LEDs I will need to use, as I want to have 4 different colours. |
| Shana Minsk 10.03.2011 | Looks extremely cool. I'll certainly put this at the top of things to research in more depth. |
| Joan Kollmorgen 09.03.2011 | Cool thanks for the info |
| Louisa Oberc 09.03.2011 | Yeppers! most rgb leds have 3 discrete leds in one package, all sharing one common lead (can be either the anode or the cathode). Be careful though, as there are types that are marketed as tri-colour leds. and they ARE NOT RGB... they are usualy simple Red/Green leds with an extra lead that connects both the red and the green at the same time (red, green, red+green = tri colour, but not rgb). So, using the one i linked to as an example: it's a common anode led, so you would connect the anode to +V and each cathode to ground (or a microcontroller [arduino, etc]) through an appropriate series resistor. (google search: led calculator) technically speaking rgb leds are able to produce 6 colours (red, green, blue, red+green, red+blue, green+blue), however, by using PWM (pulse width modulation -- way outside the scope of this post) you can theoretically make any colour you want... |
| Joan Kollmorgen 09.03.2011 |
Originally Posted by DjNecro
Is the color determined by which pins you connect to ? Thanks |
| Louisa Oberc 09.03.2011 | if you want lots of colours, your best best would be RGB led's... they contain red/green/blue leds in one 5mm package... mix the colours and you have plenty of options http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/5mm...ml?cPath=93_94 |
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