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[QUOTE="AussiePhil, post: 125090, member: 1"] Since pixels came on the seen it has been common to recommend Pixel nodes (strings) and Pixel strip to newbies to start playing with. However both have a minimum power supply requirement to power them and really in this day and age of being able to power stuff from USB the advice is outdated. Better to get some USB power-able seed pixels that are 2811 protocol based. A link to the little seed pixels is below. Highly recommend that you buy 10M to get 100 pixels to play with as well as the controller that plugs into a USB charger power bank [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002906547500.html?spm=a2g0o.store_pc_groupList.8148356.6.47836960bSm7C1[/URL] This gets you 100 pixels that are 5v and 2811 protocol based, so the same as strip or nodes but can be run from a USB port. The supplied controller can be used if you then want to use these stand alone. I'll let the controller specialists suggest some options in replies for then interfacing back to a computer for playing with actually controlling them Couple already suggested Just an example link - [URL]https://forkineye.com/espixelstick-v3/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://quinled.info/quinled-dig-uno/[/URL] Cheers Phil [/QUOTE]
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