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Arduino BLINK Blueprints

You're reading from  Arduino BLINK Blueprints

Product type Book
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785284182
Pages 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Utsav Shah Utsav Shah
Profile icon Utsav Shah

LED strips


LED strips are flexible circuit boards with full color LEDs soldered on them. There are two basic types of LED strip: the "analog" and "digital" kinds. Analog strips have all the LEDs connected in parallel. So, they act as one huge tri-color LED. In case of an analog LED strip, we can't set the color/brightness of each LED. So, they are easy to use and inexpensive. Digital LED strips work in a different way. To use the LED, we have to send digital code corresponding to each LED in the case of a digital LED strip. As they provide more modularity, they are quite expensive. Also, digital LED strips are difficult to use compared to analog LED strips:

Internally, RGB LEDs are connected to each other in parallel. One section of the strip contains all three LEDs, connected in parallel. A complete LED strip is made up of a number of parallel RGB LEDs connected in series. Connection in one block/section is as shown in the following figure:

As one section contains multiple LEDs, it requires...

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