Awesome.

I made one almost the same!

For any LED geeks, I have found using ONE 18650 (3.7v) will power an Arduino and 50 WS2801's on a blinking animation for the entire night if you are conservitive with the animations and brightness. The default color rainbow will last about 1.5 hours. Charging 18650's from a ciggarett lights socket i...

Hey dude! A few things I thought could help you along: Adafruit sell good quality tough lights. You can get em cheaper from aliexpress, but you are guaranteed to get a good solid build of lights from adafruit. These would work awesome for braces: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1376 You can cut and...

FinBot wrote: WS2811 is slightly faster, and will work with the same code!

Apologies that is technically incorrect, but you can swap the LED library used to talk to the leds, and the code you make will be roughly the same.

RULE OF THUMB: Converting electricity to light takes allot of energy to perform. The more lights you have, the more power you consume. You don't need allot of lights to be seen in the dark. 1 amp will be sustained from 4xAA batteries for about an hour. Half an amp, 2 hours. Unsure how much power you...

I used the WS2801 and WS2811 led strips. WS2811 is slightly faster, and will work with the same code! If you are starting from absolute scratch it may be a learning curve...but I don't think it is very steep at all.... :lol: Worst case is you find a friend or enthusiast who loved Arduino and will se...

Hi guys, A few thoughts on lighting, with LED's being a passion of mine... Deep cycles are great as they don't mind going flat so much, where a car battery will die quickly if flattened too many times. INVERTER OPTIONS: They are easy, but they an ineficient so they chew more power than they provide,...