I am trying to make a boardgame (Catan) with lots of RGB leds (168). and still puzzeling how to connect those leds.
Need to have 19 Tiles with 6 leds for each Tile.
All the leds needs to have a kind of logic, need to know what led is burning and which color.
Was thinking to connect the LEDS in a matrix but I think that will be messy and if I also want to have logic in those LEDS it will be a pain in the ass to program it.
Other option I look was to use Led drivers like the LP5018 Texas Instrument, for each tile one for 6 leds. The problem I have with that is that I can only connect 4 of those with I2C because can only specifiy the slave address using 2 pins to put HIGH or LOW.
Does someone have a better solution or can someone give me a hint to use the 2 options I have described.
Need to have 19 Tiles with 6 leds for each Tile.
All the leds needs to have a kind of logic, need to know what led is burning and which color.
Was thinking to connect the LEDS in a matrix but I think that will be messy and if I also want to have logic in those LEDS it will be a pain in the ass to program it.
Other option I look was to use Led drivers like the LP5018 Texas Instrument, for each tile one for 6 leds. The problem I have with that is that I can only connect 4 of those with I2C because can only specifiy the slave address using 2 pins to put HIGH or LOW.
Does someone have a better solution or can someone give me a hint to use the 2 options I have described.