Animating LED Strip

[Mayotuna]

Hi

New to LEDs, curious to how you’d go about getting LEDs on a strip to flash one after the other.

Small strip, 3-5 LEDs.
Ideally with a minimal amount of components. (Ive got a small area to work with)
Thanks

 

[davesparks]

You'll need LED tape designed for the purpose, you can't use a standard LED tape for this.
I know tbe product as 'pixel tape' each LED has a small chip connected to it which receives data and controls the LED according to that data.

You'll also need a suitable power supply and a controller to output the data signal, this can be done by an arduino for example or a proprietary controller.

 

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[Mayotuna]

You'll need LED tape designed for the purpose, you can't use a standard LED tape for this.
I know tbe product as 'pixel tape' each LED has a small chip connected to it which receives data and controls the LED according to that data.

Thanks for the advice Dave, looking into how small I can get the controller now.
Any controller you might suggest?
Seems like a fairly basic animation, do we really need a controller?

 

[davesparks]

Thanks for the advice Dave, looking into how small I can get the controller now.
Any controller you might suggest?
Seems like a fairly basic animation, do we really need a controller?

There might be a product out there which handles the sequence generation within the tape but I'm not aware of it.

If using pixel tape then yes you need a controller, as something has to tell each LED when to switch on and off.