There are several types of LED strips but this article will focus on driving LED arrays which use WS2811 4 and WS2812 4 driver chips. This is in part because products like Adafruit’s NeoPixel strips ...

Normally, when a project calls for addressable LEDs, we just throw a strip of WS2812s and an Arduino together, cobble together some code from the examples in the FastLED library, and call it a day.… ...

The WS2811 LED strip controllers are no different. But [Danny] figured out a way to drive them reliably with an 8MHz clock source . The WS2811 has become one of the most popular controllers for ...