How can I improve my wiring?
I’ve worked with WS2182Bs for a couple years now as a amateur hobby and slowly built up my collection of strips and power supplies, but after moving to a new place I realized how precarious my approach to wiring is. I currently have 3 240 led strips with data coming from a Teensy 3.2 + OctoWS2811, and feeding in power from 3 clunky brick adapters at the beginning of each strip with a capacitor shoved into the barrel jack adapter. It’s been immensely frustrating trying to keep everything connected and working, since there’s so many points of failure and I have data traveling through ethernet cables connected with solder that falls apart pretty easily since the wires are tiny. I’m more a software guy, so I haven’t really a good grasp on common practices when it comes to this kind of stuff.
How can I build a more permanent and stable solution? More specifically: how can I physically protect my microcontroller, what is a better strategy for powering the three strips (that are not centralized in one location), and which type of wire would work best for reliable digital data travel over some distance (probably 6 feet between strips max) but is heavy duty enough to stay put if moved a little? Thanks in advance.