The Adafruit FadeCandy Driver is a purpose built controller for making technical, artistic and just plain fantastic displays using NeoPixels and addressable LEDs. It can drive up to 512 x RGB LEDs arranged in an 8 x 64 pattern and you can control them all via 1 x micro-USB port from Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Raspberry Pi. The FadeCandy board is part of a larger system aimed at opening people's creativity without weighing them down with lots of technical details. Its on board firmware handles the protocol of talking to the addressable LED strips and managing the colour correction and dithering. The FadeCandy server software runs on a host system as already mentioned and talks to one or more FadeCandy driver boards. Finally, there's the Open Pixel Control Protocol which is a way of getting the pixel data needed by the FadeCandy drivers from media files such as JPEGS, Bitmaps, video files or directly from software.
Supplied as a fully assembled and tested board. Adafruit supply a free tutorial and a multi FadeCandy write-up to help you getting started, there is also an active community where you can get help.
Whether you want to create a simple 8 x 8 display or a monster with 2500 LEDs then the FadeCandy is the route to take.
- Control 512 x addressable LEDs per board
- Use 1 x board or multiple boards in one project
- Dimensions: 20 x 38mm (0.8 x 1.5in.)
- Adafruit part no.: 1689
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