I am working on a school project where I need to control WS2812B LEDs. These are addressable LEDs.
During the project, it seemed easier to drive the LEDs with an Arduino and control that Arduino from LabVIEW. Meanwhile, I have some doubts about this way of working, because I can't get the leds to turn on. To be exact: I can turn them on and off via the Arduino Uno, but I cannot turn them on in LabVIEW via the Arduino.
Therefore I have two questions, for which I hope very much that someone can help me:
1) is it a good idea to control these leds from LabVIEW via an Arduino and does anyone have an example program for that?
2) does anyone have any other suggestions (preferably a not too expensive solution with an example program) on how I could also connect these leds to LabVIEW?
Thanks in advance for your responses.