Hi, I'm about to start an LED top hat project and I'm trying to

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Hi, I’m about to start an LED top hat project and I’m trying to decide how I should wire my LED strip. It will be my first time working with a LED matrix and I’m wondering what the Pros and Cons are of using serpentine wiring or not?

As the matrix will be wrapped around a the hat, the amount of extra wire to make the matrix non serpentine will be negligible as the start and end of each strip will be in a similar place.

Having looked at the XY matrix example the only slight downside I’ve seen is the small number of extra computations to work out the LED positions.

I’ll be running it from a teensy 3.1 and using APA 102 strip, should that make any difference.

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Do whatever makes the wiring most convenient. “Fixing” the layout of the pixels in software is trivial and takes negligible computation.

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Thanks, that’s what I suspected, but just wanted to make sure I wasn’t overlooking something which wasn’t obvious as I’m still getting to grips with electronics. I went with serpentine in the end as I wanted to prototype the matrix flat before I put it onto the hat.