Arduino: Building exciting LED based projects and espionage devices
by Adith Jagdish Boloor, Samarth Shah, Utsav Shah, Marco Schwartz
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 ...
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