First test: Led lights
My led strips arrived in the mailbox. In this blog post I send basic code to the led strip to test it.
I ordered a 10m led strip with 300leds along with a 5V 10A power adapter and some other electronics. Before I connected these to the strip I went to a coaching meeting to make sure I didn't make any rookie mistakes when it comes to volts and amps. I ran a basic example demo to see if each light works in each color.
A next step is to attach these lights to my cardboard prototype to see how sharp I am going to be able to get my text.
As you can see, I lose a lot of LEDs in the curves and at the back of the tree. When my design is final I will have to cut and solder the strip to the desired sizes.