Controlling individual LEDs on a strip using Arduino

Tom Hall

Hi there,

For a university project, I'm trying to create a sound installation whereby strips of LEDs are controlled by music generated in MAX. This is my first time using an Arduino (Leonardo), as before I have used an X - OSC for similar projects.

The issue I'm having is that I don't have any idea how to make the Arduino and MAX communicate. The more I look into it, the more complicated the issue seems to become with Arduino's coding software (my coding skills are abysmal).

Any help getting the two to communicate and then controlling the lights from MAX with minimal Arduino coding would be massively appreciated.

Thanks.

Source Audio

You need to study Arduino libs for the LED strips that you use,
and decide on number of LEDs to be controlled.
There will be many examples and web tutorials or even videos
showing ways to control LED stripes.

Max uses seral object to communicate with arduino.
Help files are not really helpfull, but there are many
posts her in the forum about it, and also specific to LED rgb control from max.
Then in Max you need to see what kind of reaction to music you want to use
to control the LEDs.