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DESCRIPTION

A new collaboration between Adafruit & Micah from Scanlime, we are excited to

introduce Fadecandy, a NeoPixel driver with built in dithering, that can be

controlled over USB. Fadecandy is not just hardware! It is a kit of both hardware

and software parts that make LED art projects easier to build and better-looking so

sculptors and makers and multimedia artists can concentrate on beautiful things

instead of reinventing the wheel. It's an easy way to get started and an advanced

tool for professionals. It's a collection of simple parts that work well together:

• Firmware that uses unique dithering and color correction algorithms to raise

the bar for quality while getting out of the way of your creativity.

• Open source hardware for connecting cheap and popular WS2811 based LEDs

to a laptop, desktop, or Raspberry Pi over USB.

• Fadecandy Server Software, which communicates with one Fadecandy board or

dozens. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, and on embedded platforms like

Raspberry Pi.

• The Open Pixel Control protocol, a simple way of getting pixel data from your

creative tools into the Fadecandy server.

• Libraries and examples for popular languages. We have Python and Processing

already, with Javascript and Max coming soon.

• LEDs! Fadecandy works with Adafruit's popular WS2811/WS2812 LEDs. Each

controller board supports up to 512 LEDs, arranged as 8 strips of 64 each.

Headers are not included but we have tons of different kinds of dual header in the

shop if you want to solder something into the pads.

Fadecandy is designed to enable art that is subtle, interactive, and playful -

exploring the interplay between light, form, and shadow. If you’re tired of seeing

project after project with frenetic blinky rainbow fades, you’ll appreciate how easy

it is to create expressive lighting!

It's also battle tested! The firmware was originally developed to run the Ardent

Mobile Cloud Platform, a Burning Man project which used 2500 LEDs to project

ever-changing rolling cloud patterns onto the interior of a translucent plastic