As a suggestion for readers that want to go into controlling individual RGB LEDs, LED strings or strips with the ws2801, ws2811 or similar protocol are much cheaper (I recently got strings of 50 ...

You can easily add Internet-based control for your Arduino if it is close enough to your server to be connected via USB. This tutorial will give the basics you need to get it working. The gist of t… ...

Fig.5: Generating logic “1”, “0” and “reset” states on the WS2811 control bus. Courtesy of World Semiconductor Even if you are still struggling with some aspect of PWM-based data streams, it's easy to ...