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Thank you both for the quick responses. I was worried it would be the case that accurate reproduction of colors from an LCD would be difficult if not impossible. I was hoping to reasonably accurately reproduce the 256 "web safe" colors. I am trying to inexpensively build something like the Ambilight technology used by Philips in some of their tvs. See example youtube. I have image analysis software written to return the average color from a given edge of an image but if I can't produce that color with the blinkm maxm I guess it's a bust. I'm willing to try calibration but how much variation could I expect between blinkm's? A black art indeed.

zombieCat,

The LED strips came from SparkFun.com.

Here is the actual product link http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/prod... – matthewh, on December 02, 2008 14:56

Thank you!

Your suggestion of adding an external power source and rewiring the LED strip did the trick.

Now I'm running into issues with color reproduction that I don't grasp yet. In one example r:0xff, g:0xff, b:0x00 is said to be orange (in the source comments) but it looks more sickly green-yellow. I have an orange color on my monitor I am trying to reproduce #BE6C16 with the blinkm maxm but I don't get anything remotely close to that color. Any thoughts? – matthewh, on December 02, 2008 06:51