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    NeoPixel Cheat Sheet

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    The document provides instructions for connecting and programming a NeoPixel LED strip using an Arduino. The LED strip contains individually addressable RGB lights that can each display any color. The steps include connecting the LED strip to an Arduino, installing the NeoPixel library, and writing code to set the color of each light and update the display.

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    NeoPixel Cheat Sheet

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    The document provides instructions for connecting and programming a NeoPixel LED strip using an Arduino. The LED strip contains individually addressable RGB lights that can each display any color. The steps include connecting the LED strip to an Arduino, installing the NeoPixel library, and writing code to set the color of each light and update the display.

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    quick cheatsheet on how to use the Adafruit NeoPixel LED Strips

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    The document provides instructions for connecting and programming a NeoPixel LED strip using an Arduino. The LED strip contains individually addressable RGB lights that can each display any color. The steps include connecting the LED strip to an Arduino, installing the NeoPixel library, and writing code to set the color of each light and update the display.

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    NeoPixel Cheat Sheet

    Uploaded by

    Liam Brady
    The document provides instructions for connecting and programming a NeoPixel LED strip using an Arduino. The LED strip contains individually addressable RGB lights that can each display any color. The steps include connecting the LED strip to an Arduino, installing the NeoPixel library, and writing code to set the color of each light and update the display.

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    NeoPixel LED Strip

    LED Strips are individually addressable ribbons of RGB (red green blue)
    lights, meaning that each light on the ribbon can be controlled by itself
    and give o any color on the visible color spectrum. Every light on the
    strip has its own chip onboard that processes commands given to it by
    the Arduino.

    Connecting:
    1. Solder wires to the 3 pads on the
    LED strip. Make sure they are
    soldered at the start of the strip (the
    arrows should be going away from
    the wires).
    2. Connect the +5V on the strip to the
    5V pin on the Arduino.
    3. Connect the GND on the strip to one
    of the GND pins on the Arduino.
    4. Connect the DIN (Data IN) on the
    strip to any of the digital pins on the
    Arduino.

    NeoPixel LED Strip


    Installing the NeoPixel Library:
    1. Download the NeoPixel Library from Adafruits Github page. You can find the page by
    googling NeoPixel Github.
    2. Unzip the downloaded file and change the name of the unzipped folder to
    Adafruit_NeoPixel.
    3. Open up Arduino, then go to Sketch - Include Library - Add .ZIP Library. Navigate to
    the unzipped folder, select the folder itself, and click Choose.

    Programming:
    This line imports the NeoPixel library to your
    Arduino code.

    #include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h>

    This line tells the Arduino that we have a


    NeoPixel strip with 30 lights plugged into pin
    6.

    Adafruit_NeoPixel strip = Adafruit_NeoPixel(30, 6,


    NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);

    begin() sets up the LED strip.


    show() tells the LEDs to update.

    numPixels() returns the length of the strip,


    in this case 30

    void setup() {
    strip.begin();
    strip.show();
    }
    void loop() {
    for (int i = 0; i < strip.numPixels();

    setPixelColor(LED, Color) tells the selected


    LED to change its color to an RGB value, in
    this case (255, 0, 0) or red.

    strip.setPixelColor(i, strip.Color(255, 0, 0));


    }

    show() tells the LED to update. The LEDs wont


    change color until this is called.
    Each number in the RGB color is on a scale
    from 0-255, with 0 being the darkest and 255
    being the brightest.*

    i++) {

    strip.show();
    delay(100);
    }

    Note: If this is too daunting, or if you need inspiration, open up Arduino and go to File - Examples Neopixel - strandtest. Use that as a starting point.
    * 255 may seem like an arbitrary number, but this limit occurs because the computer stores each of the color numbers in 8-bit unsigned (a.k.a. positive only)
    numbers. This means that because of the way binary works, the maximum number it can store is 28 or 256, but since computers start counting from 0, 255
    becomes the 256th and final number.

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