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Middle School Student Project

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At the beginning of next year, I would like to do an LED panel or strip light project with about 20 students. I would like the course to focus on wiring the lights in a series and programing the lights to display messages or a light show.
My questions-What product should I use-Panels or strip lights? Is this something that middle school students can do? What controls and power supplies should I use?

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Your goals are not clear. Do you want the students to do wiring and electronics or programming and execution? These will require different products.

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As I have looked at some projects that other students have done, I think it would be a combination of both. I would like the students to build a large panel using series of smaller panels or LED tape and then program it to do different things. I am fine with using a combination of products.

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OK then what are we talking about for a budget?

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$2000-$2500

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For panels we have these and these

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Here is a good starter project. It is a variation of the space invaders pendant tutorial. I found the soldering was too much for beginners so I adapted it to have less soldering.
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