
• Each LED is addressable as the driver chip is inside the LED• Each one has ~18m A constant current drive so the colour will be very consistent even if the voltage varies• No external choke resistors are required making the design slim• The LEDs are 'chainable' by connecting the output of one stick into the input of another• Power the whole thing with 5VDC (4-7V works) & you're ready to rock• Please click here to see the Neo Pixel detailed guide Make your own little LED strip arrangement with this stick of Neo Pixel LEDs. We crammed 8 of the tiny 5050 (5mm x 5mm) smart RGB LEDs onto a PCB with mounting holes & 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 ~18m A constant current drive so the colour will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, & no external choke resistors are required making the design slim. Power the whole thing with 5VDC (4-7V works) & you're ready to rock. The LEDs are 'chainable' by connecting the output of one stick into the input of another
- see the photo above. 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.