Refresh Rate of Digital RGB LED Strip

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Refresh Rate of Digital RGB LED Strip

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I was wondering about the digitally addressable RGB strips that you carried - how good is their PWM quality? If I was to run code similar to the "breathing" effect found on your cufflinks (which are amazing, kudos) but with different colors, would it be jittery or would it run smoothly? I want to buy them, but don't want to buy 5 meters worth and then realize that they don't work smoothly.

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its not as smooth for a long strip because it doesnt have pwm built in
we will soon have pwm led strip, but there is no ETA right now. subscribe to the blog to get notified! :D

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Re: Refresh Rate of Digital RGB LED Strip

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Do you have any sense of how soon those will show up? I know you said you have no ETA for them, but is it a couple of months or a year from now?

And what if I used a super fast processor, like a BeagleBoard to do the software PWM?

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BB arent usually good at this sort of thing, we are hoping we have the new strips made by the factory and delivered within 1 month but there are always unexpected delays :)

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Rock on! Sweet. I call dibs on a few meters of those.

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