Thanks! I ordered the battery pack and connectors, and have tested out with the alligator clips for now.
One thing I noticed about the NeoPixel strip vs the Flora Pixels that I have (I think v1, w/the slower chip)... I had code that would fade the Flora Pixels in the same color from value 0 to 255, and a separate function to do the same back down (from 255 to 0) with no delay()... the Flora Pixels could accomplish this very fast, whereas that code ported to a sketch for the NeoPixel Strip (the code is a simple for loop, don't have it right now) makes the strip's LEDs take more time to do the fade.
I think I actually don't need to fade each pixel for the pattern I want overall, so now on the strip, I just make each pixel light, then each pixel turn off, with a delay value for the turn off function. However, it might make it look cooler, and I was curious why the difference in behavior.
P.S. my questions aside, the strip and pixels are awesome, thanks Adafruit!
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Re: digital LED strip or wearable LEDs for shirt chaser pattern
The speed difference is likely due to the number of pixels being updated. Any time you call strip.show(), it writes all the pixels to the strip.
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Ahhh ok, thanks!
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