Fortunately, much of the hard work has already been done and there are libraries of LED strip drivers and applications available for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, LaunchPad and other popular platforms. There ...

Normally, when a project calls for addressable LEDs, we just throw a strip of WS2812s and an Arduino together, cobble together some code from the examples in the FastLED library, and call it a day.… ...

While many of these POV setups use custom PCBs and discrete LEDs, [Andrew]’s design uses readily available off-the-shelf components: WS2811 LED strips, an Arduino, an Invensense IMU breakout ...