Use Addressable LED Strip with Arduino || Essential Engineering

This video covers how to control individually addressable LEDs using an Arduino Nano. LED strips are a fun way to get creative with your Arduino projects, and with a few simple lines of code, you can be up and running in no time!

Make sure you are familiar with for loops, the RGB color scheme, and basic circuitry. The for loop allows you to traverse your array of LEDs and assign each LED a specific RGB color value. Using this logic, you can create motion and flashing effects similar to the video.

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[cavinrauch]

What a short super informative video !
Covers all the basics of setting up the LEDs and the framework of FastLed

[antonioinserni]

Aside from the array numbering (yet, 0 to 59), this is a great video! Thank you for posting!

[richardgarcia]

By far the best how to for leds and codes. Kudos man!

[sandrocavali]

thanks mate, I´ve had this arduino in its box since the pandemicum and now it will be turned into a VU meter for the studio

[jeffjr]

Me watching this with no Coding knowledge

[cdawn]

I think a slower version of what you specifically used on the bread board and how it was set up would be super helpful. Thanks !

[NunchakuFlowTutorials]

thank you very much your content is top and amazing advice thank you. i watched this video about three months ago a month ago i started prototyping using your method thank you who else hear is following this channel in covid 19 out brake and iv subscribed I'm a fire artist and flow artist i use my body to express myself and using props your info has helped me thank you this is now a new hobby

[jasonhernandez]

I appreciate the explanation of what your doin and wat the components mean and how they work with the leds

[toddduffett]

Very clear, concise and helpful video. Thank you

[vg_coder]

Very Helpful! Nice quick to-the-point video.

[raymondheath]

The best explanation I've seen so far! Thanks

[JJiG]

video is perfect for such a simple coding project. thank u.

[AubMar]

Brilliant, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience here, much appreciated.

[Jarcik]

This was soooo helpful! Thank you very much 💜

[metamud]

The program actually has a SEGFAULT in the second for-loop. By starting at i=NUM_LEDS you are indexing leds[NUM_LEDS] in the first iteration, which is 1 past the end of the array.
Also, because you only run until "i>0" you 'forget' i == 0 for leds[0].
The correct loop should read:
for (int i=NUM_LEDS-1; i >=0; i--) { ... }
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[GambitMB]

Brand new to this and about to set up my first programmable LED strip. What programming should I do for making an all white strip pockets of light chase each other from left to right in 3 or 4 LED sections?

[waynewayoaveyard]

this was really good to follow, wish you did more. im just learning to code arduinos and this help'd

[maxheadrom]

So I set the LEDs then do the Show command - and that's how it works. Thanks!!!

[victorsokoluik]

Hi! is there the way divide the strip for two part: for example we have 60pixels and 30 of them light green and other 30 light red

[bazrazin]

i learnt some programming today, also where is the addressing done how does next led light up from the previous one or any from the strip.