Reddit reviews ALITOVE WS2811 12mm Diffused Digital RGB LED Pixel Light Individually Addressable Round LED Pixels Module IP68 Waterproof DC 5V 50pcs/Set

Depends on the size of your room. I put together a list to the best of my abilities:

Probably start with something like this. They're 3.5m in length, so should be enough for most ceiling to floor installs. Say you're trying to fill a 300 sq.ft at a foot's distance for each, so you'll need at least 280 strings for somewhat even distribution. So that's at least $3500.

Second, you'll probably want some sort of scaffold attached to your ceiling, so that you can have space to run wiring from controller to the various LED strings. 2 feet of triangular photo light scaffolding runs at about $100, so I'm gonna take that. You'll need a conservative 50 of them to cover your 300sq ft ceiling adequately. So that's another conservative $5000.

LED control can be achieved with any computer, a few arduinos, and a few addressable LED controllers. Call this another conservative $1000.

Finally you'll spend a considerable amount (100+ hours) of time figuring out how to control all of this programmatically in a way that makes sense. That expense depends on how valuable your time is.

So I would call it $10k for a basic setup in a 300 sq foot room.

source: I've set up some basic computer controlled LED christmas lights/scenes in my apartment.

edit: for added effect, get about 5000 ping pong balls, and cut holes in them to mount onto the LEDs to diffuse the light.

Maybe this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AG923GI/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

WS2811 LED Christmas lights
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01AG923GI

See if you can 'enjoy' something from this list.

does a 'strand' count as a string ?
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3631
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3630
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Is a worm a string?
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3869
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Is this what you mean by string? (careful! there have12v powered sets)
https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-LED-Individually-Addressable-Waterproof/dp/B01AG923GI/
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add your own strings (grin)
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1312
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1559
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1558
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Here is Adafruit NeoPixel Überguide
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide
I suggest you need to read and understand about how to power the LEDs and power requirements.

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Happy Good Friday

Here's more. https://imgur.com/gallery/msBY1sw My wife did all the artwork. I programmed the lights. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AG923GI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 using a raspberry pi zero, here's the source https://gist.github.com/nickadam/84a5ffc2d7f501b50ac5c887d8995a6f

1000 of these: https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-LED-Individually-Addressable-Waterproof/dp/B01AG923GI

Right - now that you mention it I remember you talking in a thread a few weeks back about making these

I don’t doubt that they’re indestructible. They look it.

Just sayin that these are pretty cheap and I’d be pretty surprised if you could find anything on playa that could damage them.

For example:

ALITOVE WS2811 12mm Diffused Digital RGB LED Pixel Light Individually Addressable Round LED Pixels Module IP68 Waterproof DC 5V 50pcs/set https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AG923GI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0wH4AbPADN2FM

Those LEDs are Alitove brand (on Amazon). They are currently powered by a BlinkyTape control board (on BlinkinLabs.

There are other addressable LED strips that will work as long as they are WS2811 based and 5V (like these: https://smile.amazon.com/ALITOVE-LED-Individually-Addressable-Waterproof/dp/B01AG923GI/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3UXGP0G50U2AS&keywords=ws2811+christmas+lights&qid=1570571218&sprefix=WS2811+christm%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-4 ).

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The ones I linked in my blog were the only ones I could find with that retro bulb look though.

The lights are individually addressable, so when they're hooked up to an Arduino, you can set each light to blink individually, be a different color, etc. I used this Arduino library and these lights.

You can possibly use these.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AG923GI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, they are similar to what you have shown. I am just getting back into RPi, and arduino. I bought a string of these last christmas and they are pretty cool. They use the libraries that Adafruit has for the 2811 and another library but I can't remember it off the top of my head and I have to start from scratch I think I may have been using arduino for this, but Pi may work too?

Here's my initial write-up on it. I'm using 12mm "pixels" (no endorsement, just first link I found on amazon) but I'm using a ws2801 version. For power, I'm now using four 3A power supplies, each with a battery pack of six shitty 18650 cells in parallel which means I basically don't have to worry about running out of battery in an evening out but I've got more size/weight in battery than I would have if I had built my battery pack out of better cells.

ALITOVE WS2811 12mm Diffused Digital RGB LED Pixel Light Individually Addressable Round LED Pixels Module IP68 Waterproof DC 5V 50pcs/set https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AG923GI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_Ghb1CbC1C0HWA

If you don’t know how to drive the lights, get a micro:bit. And look up tutorials for micro:bit and neopixel.

Do you want/need the ability to change the colors? I feel like adding color changing with mobile control is a bit overkill here. A simple backing board with LEDs hardwired, an on/off button or switch, and a small cord to plug it into the wall would be enough. Even if you want to use an Arduino I'd still suggest plugging in into a wall instead of batteries, especially if you include some form of mobile link.

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Edit: if you are not good with circuits I would suggest starting with something like this, a power supply ( the 5V one they suggest will work) , and an Arduino with a library that works with the WS2811. Plug the lights into holes on a firm thin board behind the planets and light them up or flash them with the arduino. If you don't like the big bulbs and can solder you could also just glue these to the board.

If you get that going then add the mobile control, or don't, later.

these were the lights we used

> WS2811 LED
https://www.amazon.com/ALITOVE-LED-Individually-Addressable-Waterproof/dp/B01AG923GI

I am planning on powering it with an external power supply i bought, but again, confused on the wiring of all of it w/ the power supply