Custom 144 LED LPD8806 High Density 2’10"PCB Strip in Aluminum channel, brought to you from the nimble hands of @Ashley_M_Kirchner_No and me.
Here are more up-close pictures of the strips from an earlier post:
https://plus.google.com/105445034001275025240/posts/dSzbPmvQmJM
That is a thing of beauty.
Damn. Can’t wait to see them working at full blast.
Anything above setBrightness(100) is seriously blinding. Maybe I put this on my vehicle and when I get a tailgater, I flash a full 255 and middle finger, which he’ll never see 
Would @Mark_Kriegsman be able to share a snippet of how to incorporate a palette into the Noise Playground, I’ll post a video
That is super sweet. Awesome guys.
@Ashley_M_Kirchner_No , I think you said the max power draw of the LPD8806 was less than WS2812Bs at one point? Are there figures for lumens-per-watt for all these combinations, and are there any significant differences?
I did? Don’t recall. But, it’s also not hard to figure out: each channel only sinks 18mA (constant current mode), and the IC itself has a power consumption is less than 350mW.
Oh, so it’s about the same then (I reckon off 0.06A per pixel.)
The lumens-per-watt figure still interests me. Are we seeing gradual improvements in that figure year-on-year or are 5050 RGB LEDs made down to a price rather than up to a spec?
I’d love to see a smaller format LED with built-in controller, a-la WS2812B. At the 144 LEDs/m density I could do something pretty incredible with that on a gauntlet or breastplate or similar.
For all intents and purposes, yes.
