Unfortunately, it’s not possible to do this with an SSC-32. The datasheet for the LED driver chip says it signal timing tolerance is ±150ns, which is much to fast for the SSC-32.
The signals for this chip are pretty unusual: it’s a serial protocol that uses pulse widths to encode its bits.
0-bit: 0.78us high, 1.55us low (with ±150ns timing precision)
1-bit: 1.55us high, 0.78us low
The SSC-32 can generate pulses between 500us and 2500us using the regular “P” command. Not only are these pulses too long, but since the length of the pulses need to vary on a pulse-by-pulse basis this method wouldn’t work even if it did work for pulse lengths of 0.78us.
It’s possible to manually modulate a pulse signal using the “H” and “L” command, but the shortest period would be something around 1ms (1000us).
Here’s the quick math I used: Since the maximum baud rate for the SSC-32 board is 115,200 bits/sec and that it would take at least 80 bits to change the state of one pin to high and back low (#0H#0L, 8 bytes @ 10bits/byte), the shortest on/off commands you can manually send would take something like 694us to be transmitted over the RS-232 serial connection.
The signals for this LED chip are much shorter and have incredibly small tolerances, so you would need to use a microcontroller to control them.
In the youtube video, they use an Arduino to control the LEDs. If you examine the code they use, you can see that they use assembly (much more advanced than C code) because even the functions provided by Arduino aren’t fast enough to make these signals. (The shortest delay command, delayMicroseconds, is almost able, but not quite.)
If you don’t want to rewrite your serial protocol on an Arduino, you could use the output pins of the SSC-32 to send low speed signals to some input pins on an Arduino or BotBoarduino, which will then generate the right high speed serial signals to control the LEDs…
Hope this helps,
