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Notify me when its in stockYou can individually control each LED! Create your own small LED arrangement with this NeoPixel LED stick.
This is the Natural White RGBW version.
The NeoPixel 'split' is half RGB you know and love, with the other half being a yellow phosphor-coated white LED. It has a bit of a yellowish tint, but it's still incredibly bright (the camera's having trouble auto-adjusting for the fact that it's so bright) and is a very nice 'natural white' color. It's not a pure white-white.
These are insanely bright (like ow my eye hurts when I look at them) and can be controlled with 8-bit PWM per channel (8 x 4 channels = a total of 32-bit color). Great for adding lots of colorful + white dots to your project!
We crammed 8 of the tiny 5050 (5mm x 5mm) smart RGBW LEDs onto a PCB with mounting holes and a chainable design. Use only one microcontroller pin to control as many as you can chain together! Each LED is addressable as the driver chip is inside the LED. Each one has ~18mA constant current drive so the color will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, and no external choke resistors are required making the design slim. Power the whole thing with 5VDC (4-7V works) and you're ready to rock.
The NeoPixel LEDs use 800 KHz protocol so specific timing is required. NeoPixels are 800 KHz protocol but if your microcontroller is a bit of a diva, it might have trouble with the timing. On an Arduino, the PWM frequency is ~400 Hz so it works well. However, if the LED is moving you'll see a little bit of a flicker.
The LEDs are 'chainable' by connecting the output of one stick into the input of another. There is a single data line with a very timing-specific protocol. Since the protocol is very sensitive to timing, it requires a real-time microcontroller such as an AVR, Arduino, PIC, mbed, etc. It cannot be used with a Linux-based microcomputer or interpreted microcontroller such as the netduino or Basic Stamp. Assembly is required, and you'll need to be able to solder, but once you're done putting it together you can use on any 8MHz or faster microcontroller.
Comes as a single assembled and tested 8-LED strip.
You can order the NeoPixel Stick - 8 x 5050 RGBW LEDs - Natural White - 4500K from the Adafruit category at SAMM Market with competitive prices, same-day shipping, and fast delivery.
