Possible Source for LEDs

[Hackmodford]

I just found this site, http://lightberry.eu/, while the parts are for a different approach (xbmc+boblight plugin+raspberry pi), but I think the parts could be used in this project.

What do you guys think?

[Mrjohns42]

This is just an LED light controller with some extra software to work with XMBC. If you knew exactly what the controller was doing and had access to/wrote your own driver, then you could use it on this project. But to be honest, the LEDs recommended for this project work great and they only require a SPI driver.

[Hackmodford]

The impression I got was their "controller" was simply a box that allowed you to plug in power and the leds and the other end gave you the GPIO header for the pi. They're using the WS2801 LEDs too.

[Hackmodford]

I also found this product http://www.hackerspaceshop.com/raspberrypi-ws2801.html# Might help interface with the WS2801 LEDS.

[Phil1988]

for WS2801 LEDs its possible to connect direclty to the RPi - so I dont see the point to buy something for 11USD that connects the RPi to LEDS what is supoorted directly out of the box by the RPi (so what you can have for free)

[Hackmodford]

This is why: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/9642/control-ws2801-with-raspberry-pi

[Phil1988]

If the voltage isn't high enough you can use a simple viltage shifter (price about 1USD) or an Atmega328 pro mini board (with a lot of funcionallity and a price about 2USD).