As it turns out, the controller briefly shorts the LED strip’s supply voltage to generate data bits, similar to the way old pulse-dialing phones worked. A tiny chip integrated into each LED ...

He wrote an LED strip library that can control eight meter-long LED strips that can also be used on daisy chained Teensy 3.0 microcontrollers for really large displays. [Paul]’s LED library ...

If you are adding LED strip lights to a 12-volt system like a boat, trailer or car, you will connect the positive and negative 12 volt leads to the controller. If adding them to your home ...