DIY LED project i need some advice

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PutridGospel
 
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DIY LED project i need some advice

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Project outlines
2 meters of Addressable RGB LED strips
64 LED lights total, ( 1 strip = 32 LED lights)
Total of 2 strips

Power Supply - http://www.adafruit.com/products/658
LED strips - https://www.adafruit.com/products/306
Micro Controller - http://store.arduino.cc/product/A000052 but would I want headers? I am confused about them (with headers - http://store.arduino.cc/product/A000057)


this is what I have gathered from some research of strictly what I would need to do my idea.
I want this to be build off able so in the future there is room to add more lights, power supplies, basically to make the project bigger if need be.
I want to be able to program any of the 64 lights at any given time which I have learned you do by code through an arduino program I take it, I want to have the lights synchronized to the music "dancing to it" now how I want to achieve this is by a db. meter but would the loud bass off a lot of subs ruin it over time or can you get that through hardwiring somehow to make them flash to the music different lights difference scenes ( which I think I could do through coding which colors for the music High - Red, Mids- Green, Lows- Blue) I have some general questions about coding exactly and some questions on microcontrollers if you can help me out please
But not only do I want to be able to dance to the music but have premade scenarios for the lights to follow

Any help will be greatly appreciated

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Re: DIY LED project i need some advice

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You might want to have a look at this tutorial. This project analyzes the spectrum of the music to give you relative intensities of highs, mids, and lows.
https://learn.adafruit.com/piccolo/overview

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