Hello hello from a neighbour in South Africa

Jaaks

32 channels: 12 PWM and rest on off!
Joined
Jan 7, 2014
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Location
Pretoria
Hi there
I found DIY Christmas a while back and love it.
Then I found you guys and love you lot too.
Very nice documentation you have and will give me lots of reading to get into it all.
First question:
What is cheapest 5m rgb led addressable (intelligent) light strip I can get with good (hopefully free) postage to build a mega tree. Will need between 12 and 16 strips but only need 1 or two to get going.
Oh and I do not have controllers yet either.
Using a arduino with 32 channel at the moment. (Very nice but time to up my game alot into the pixel world!)
 

kel

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May 12, 2010
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Tenterfield, NSW/Qld border
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fasteddy

I have C.L.A.P
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Albion Park NSW
Welcome to ACL, lots of great advice and people here so enjoy the forum

As far as strip for a tree then these strips are commonly used.

12vdc
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/5m-led-digital-strip-DC12V-input-WS2811IC-256-scale-10pcs-IC-and-30pcs-5050-SMD-RGB/701799_568458133.html

5vdc
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/5m-WS2811-LED-digital-strip-60leds-m-with-30pcs-WS2811-built-in-the-5050-smd-rgb/701799_653641294.html

As far as postage then we will email Ray with a list of parts we want so he can then combine the shipping cost and we then pay through Pay Pal
 

Charl Marais

For my twins was the excuse I started with.
Joined
Jun 27, 2013
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Location
Secunda
Welcome Jaaks, glad to have another South African on here. Now we are starting to gather enough locals to have our own mini :D
 
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