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  Step 1

  All that is needed is Arduino and unused digital pins. Having a bigger board like Mega could accommodate more LDRs. All that is needed is digitalWrite(). The same board can also drive PWM pins to drive LEDs that drive LDRs.. clear? good!

  I wanted to have fun and used 74HC4067, 16-1 Analog Mux from Nexperia, http://assets.nexperia.com/documents/data-sheet/74HC_HCT4067.pdf
  so the instructions part, of switching on/off 5vdc will be based around muxing, the rest is pure arduino, use anything that shines the light, use port expanders, go bonkers !

  Yes, plugging Analog Mux Z pin(common input or output) to 5vdc and driving LDRs :D (it can do Digital multiplexing and demultiplexing too)
  

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  Step 2

  Connect and play, please bear with me while I'm Fritzing, in the mean time here is some video candy

  No numbers can ever replace a nice plot!

  
  

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  Step 3

  Use data sheet to find out the peak spectral response and tune your LEDs to that wavelength.

  Having unbranded and undocumented LDRs makes the whole thing much more interesting. Might write a sketch for doing just that, finding LDR spectral peak response using RGB LED etc

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