LED Strip - TheAmadeus25/CounterStrike-GlobalOffensive-Ambilight-System GitHub Wiki

There are different kinds of LED strips around. The most impressive are WS281X. These are simply 5050 SMD LED with integrated chips, which means, you can light them up individually. Mostly, the LED's are calibrated, so they have a very good light quality.

In this project I used WS2812B cutted after 21 LED's (In the future I do an upgrade to 288 LED's @ 2 meter). This one needs only one data input (DIN), 5V and GND. The suffix "B" are the newer one which has a capacitor on it for preventing damage.

Single LED

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They are in different length, density of LED's and shape.

❗ Note: Power supply is recommended! You can do quick math. Each LED takes 3 times 20mA, at full brightness: RGB=(255, 255, 255)

LED

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