This looks like a cat until you see it in the light and realize the pink stripe is a minecraft bunny ear! I couldn’t get continuity from solder connections on the output end of any of the cut sections, the first time I’ve had this problem, so each piece is controlled from its own pin on an Uno. I originally used a Mega2650/esp8266 combo board but something shorted when I was hanging it on my front door and I lost the board and half my leds! 183 leds aren’t too much for the Uno although it slows when running the Nose Noise Matrix, the noise functions are awesome! The strips are ws2812b 3535 size and 144/m density, soldered with 30gage wires. The nose martrix is made of strip sections. The eye matrices were a good deal and good quality. Spent a lot of time with the hardware so I hope to get more animations in next year.
Thanks they seemed like a fun feature to play with. Yeah I don’t know why the strips are like that, I could solder to the input ends and the connections were fine; I cut the strip across the middle of the pads like usual with wire cutters. On the output end even when I soldered wires to the pads I didn’t get continuity. It was very strange. I think only the ground was not connecting but also the signal sometimes. I added solder to the pads first using flux paste and regular solder and it seemed to ball up on the pads like normal. Have you ever seen this problem? I don’t have a microscope to inspect them.
