Hi there so I'm building a pool and i want to have rgbw lights that are fully addressable. I don't want one of the pre made devices I want to use an audrino to power the lights and have it work via Bluetooth. By rgbw I mean rgb plus warm and cold white lighting so i can have any color of the rainbow and any color of white. There are some lights on the market caled lifx z that had the option to choose any color inbetween warm and cold to get the perefect white tempature so are there lights I can buy on the market that have that also have that feature? Also this is my first project so what would I need to get over 40 feet of rgbw lighting to work via an audrino with a custom android application. I don't want people to say that its to hard to power that many lights and it can't be done I just want the list of parts and why I need them
Thanks in advance!

 

Abiding by your strict requirements, you're welcome in advance.

 

Its not clear if you want to buy individual diodes and create your own flexible PCB or what..
But here..
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2842
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide

 

An ambitious project for a first timer. But yes, it's doable. Just look at the Jumbo-Tron at any given sports event. There are obviously thousands upon thousands of LED's going off there. But also consider this: They're not all powered at once by a single controller. There are dozens if not a hundred or more panels that make up the Jumbo-Tron. Each panel controls a much smaller number of lights. Each panel is controlled by a master panel. To light as many LED's as you want to is going to take a whole lot of electronics.

I would certainly be interested in seeing how you accomplish this task.

 

It will be a very tedious task, probably not within the capability of that toy computer package.