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Review on 🌈 ALITOVE 3.2ft WS2812B RGB LED Strip Light: Programmable, Addressable, DC5V, Arduino & Raspberry Pi Compatible by Amy Perry

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Connected to Arduino, easy to program with FastLED library

I bought these but just above the keyboard tray and now I can see the keys (who needs a backlit keyboard?) and can even get neat light patterns on mine have keyboard. :D So far the glue has worked pretty well for me (about a month), although I had to put extra tape on the end of the wires. I was a little nervous about cutting them at first as I've never used bulbs like this before, but you can just cut the line across the pins between the LEDs. I connected them to an Arduino Nano and it was easy for me to figure out how to program them using the FastLED library. With my shortened strip of 29 LEDs, they work great when powered from the Arduino's 5V pin. There was a slight flicker when the light was solid white and I just added a 470uF capacitor between 5V and Gnd. I also know it might not be relevant here, but I mention it because at first I thought it might be a hardware defect: when using the fill_rainbow function, I sometimes had an issue where one of the LEDs in the rainbow was the wrong one color (specifically red instead of yellow). It turned out to be a math/programming issue with FastLED and adding it to my setup code somehow fixed it: CHSV hsv; CRGB RGB; RGB = BCB;

Pros
  • Cool product
Cons
  • No insurance