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Let’s Make Arduino LED Holiday Lighting

 NOVEMBER 13, 2017 Device Plus Editorial Team

As the holiday season is fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to create a decorative lighting using Arduino and full
color LED strip light. These LEDs will not only light up but also glow in multiple different colors to really get you into the
holiday spirit!

Today’s Electronic Recipe

Estimated time to complete: 60 minutes

Parts needed:

Arduino UNO R3
WS2811 5M LED Strip 240 SMD 5050

Table of contents
1. Intro to LED strip light
2. How to connect and wire LED strips
3. Let’s light up!

1. Intro to LED strip light

A LED strip light (or also known as LED tape) is a bit different from the ordinary LEDs. Basically, a number of LEDs are
connected to a strip or a tape. The ones usually on sale measure from approximately 30cm to 5m long.

Figure 1. LED strip light

There are two types of LED strip lights. The first type consists of a strip light in which all the LEDs on the tape have
synchronized on/off. The other type has a control IC that can individually control the LEDs on the strip one by one
according to the input signal. Although the former has more LEDs, basically there are only positive and negative
terminals like ordinary LEDs. As for the latter LED strip, there are positive and negative terminals as shown in Figure 3
below, and a total of 4 and 5 terminals including signals are generally used.

In addition, as a feature of the LED tape, we can adjust the length by cutting the yellow dotted line shown in Figure 2. (If
we cut off other parts, however, it will be impossible to connect positive and negative terminals, etc.)

Figure 2. Specification of full color LED strip

 Figure 3. Full color LED strip terminal

There are many types of LED tapes, besides the one shown in Figure 1. If you search online you’ll come across different
variations of LED strip lights.

Figure 4. A LED string

This time, we’ll be using a LED string shown in Figure 4.

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