For my latest project, I wanted to use RGBW LEDs instead of just RGB ones. As they have some interesting advantages over RGB that I wanted to explore:
Also, 16-bit is comically better for fine color fading. It’s almost free nowadays and super worth it.
Yes, saw your 16-bit post as well as your HSI one. Both things that I want to implement (am implementing right now actually) in the future but that were outside of the scope of my article.
They should appear in my next article about my RBGW controller that I am currently working on.
Maybe even in a completely separate post, if I can wrap my head around some of the gamma correction and CIE stuff.
Just looked at the hacker news thread for this post and saw this post by a user about using two different white leds.
After some crude research I only found this product that supports this in a strip format.
This would not only make the light even more natural, but allow for true color temperature shifting.
I will add this to the backlog for version two of my RBGW controller as well as a second iteration of this post.
And thanks to this post I learned that RGB systems that can change their color temperature are called RGB+CCT… but I will need to upgrade my controller prototype to 24V it seems.
