The idea of adorning oneself with glowing bits has been around forever, but instead of smearing ourselves with phosphorescent jellyfish or placing fireflies in ears like some uncivilized cavemen we went for simple LED earrings. We made a build that involves a simple slow-scroll RGB LED and a few reflective bits to bounce that pretty […]
New Product: LED Strips
Solar botics
May 2, 2017
A brilliant selection of new smart LED strips with various features. They are addressable, white RGB, or full-color RGBW, available on spools or per meter to add blindingly bright effects to your project. Some so bright, we had to shoot them at 1/4 power to avoid freaking out the camera exposure.
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5V RGB Addressable Serpentine Stripxel (48/M, 2.5M spool) 64.95 CAD / 49.95 USD This strip uses narrow 5mm construction using a little "S" bend between each LED, you can peel the backing and stick them down into actual curves that don't kink out. |
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5V StripStar Addressable WHITE ONLY 144/M LED strip 79.95 CAD / 59.95 USD This strip allows you to pack a very dense, accurately controlled illumination strip into a project that lets you feature incredibly smooth, fast effects. |
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5V Addressable RGB Stripxel LEDs (60/M, APA102, Black PCB) 34.95 CAD / 26.95 USD These addressable RGB stripxels feature the APA102C LED elements mounted 60 per meter, on a black PCB. This model is cased in a silicone IP65-compliant sleeve for good water resistance. |
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5V RGB Addressable LED Stripxel (60/M, WS2812B, White PCB) 32.95 CAD / 24.95 USD The venerable WS2812B is among the most used and well-supported addressable RGB strip LED. 60 LEDs per meter on white PCB, IP65 water resistant. |
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5V RGB Addressable LED Stripxel (30/M, WS2812B, White PCB) 22.49 CAD / 16.95 USD Similar to 60554, but featuring 30 LEDs per meter on white PCB, IP65 water resistant encased in a silicone sleeve. |
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5V RGB Addressable LED Stripxel with white (30/M, SK6812RGBW) 23.95 CAD / 17.95 USD For true white color rendition with an LED strip, you need to include a separate white LED from the other red, green, and blue LEDs. Like this one, using the SK6812 RGBW LED. |
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