B4R Question Need to hire for micro-controller programming, where do I go?

[Toonces]

I'm designing a display piece that needs to be lit with what I'm imagining to be a small cluster of LED lights, maybe something similar to a puck light, but I need to custom program the light sequence. I've recently seen a video on how you can use an arduino to run custom LED light programs, but I have no such programming knowledge and I'm not sure using an arduino, necessarily, is the only way to get this done. I need to contract someone to write an arduino program to run LED lights and teach me how to put together such a light system, as well as flash the program to new processors.

Where should I go? ... On Fiverr or elsewhere on the web to request this kind of job?

Thanks

 

[janderkan]

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[emexes]

How fast is the light sequence? I can see heaps of wireless-control puck lights on ebay, and it looks like they use an infrared RC, so one way of doing it with off-the-shelf electronics would be an Arduino with IR transmitter and receiver, but I imagine that'd be fairly slow (like about the same speed as a tv remote control).

The puck lights I looked at seem to each run off 3 x AA batteries - probably not ideal for hi-use situation, but might be ok for short-term running a display piece.

 

[emexes]

Or this might get the job done... record your colour/light sequence as a video file on a USB or SD storage device, and then (presumably) can play it back on repeat.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/385420829304

or this one, that looks like it mirrors the phone display:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/314110870152

Android phones are dirt-cheap, and it's not like you need anything remotely hi-def to simulate your small cluster of puck lights.