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<blockquote data-quote="Lightning303" data-source="post: 1185391" data-attributes="member: 97876">Looks neat, here some things to keep in mind though.You want your leds to start as far out as possible. Using this ChromaTab you would either loose like 3 leds at the start, or the board would stick out behind your tv. So to get the best result you still would need to use sime wires to connect the leds to the board. In that case you could also just use any of the other small Arduino clones, which probably would be cheaper.From the site you linked i gather that this board is actually running an ATmega328p. Which is equivalent to an Arduino Uno, and not the Leonardo (which uses an ATmega32u4). This means 2 things. Firstly you cant just attatch it to USB, as there only is UART/Serial support. You would need another little board which would gap this. Secondly with these solutions you are limited when it comes to data transfare via USB. The maximum is 115200 if i remember right. However when you want to use lots of leds (100+) that might be to slow. The ATmega32u4 chips on the other hand do have USB features built in, and they support way higher datarates. So a board based on that ship would be better for a project like ambilight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lightning303, post: 1185391, member: 97876"] Looks neat, here some things to keep in mind though. You want your leds to start as far out as possible. Using this ChromaTab you would either loose like 3 leds at the start, or the board would stick out behind your tv. So to get the best result you still would need to use sime wires to connect the leds to the board. In that case you could also just use any of the other small Arduino clones, which probably would be cheaper. From the site you linked i gather that this board is actually running an ATmega328p. Which is equivalent to an Arduino Uno, and not the Leonardo (which uses an ATmega32u4). This means 2 things. Firstly you cant just attatch it to USB, as there only is UART/Serial support. You would need another little board which would gap this. Secondly with these solutions you are limited when it comes to data transfare via USB. The maximum is 115200 if i remember right. However when you want to use lots of leds (100+) that might be to slow. The ATmega32u4 chips on the other hand do have USB features built in, and they support way higher datarates. So a board based on that ship would be better for a project like ambilight. [/QUOTE]

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