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willbland
 
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Controller for Project

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Hello,

I am building a interactive model that will need to have a flexible 6" wide strip of LED's about 4' long that will run a very slow chase pattern. This will be a first time build for me and I am looking for a recommendation on the parts to use.

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It would probably be easiest to do that with addressable LEDs like NeoPixels or DotStars:

https://www.adafruit.com/category/168
https://www.adafruit.com/category/885

The wiring for those is a lot easier than for large numbers of discrete LEDs.

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Does Adafruit offer pre programmed controllers for NeoPixels or DotStars?

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The closest thing to a pre-programmed controller would be the FadeCandy controller for Neopixels. It has firmware to simplify the implementation of more advanced effects. But some programming is still required.
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1689
https://learn.adafruit.com/led-art-with-fadecandy/intro

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