Chapter 1, page 11 This code is basic but allows the reader to gain insight into key elements for several other projects in this book. It combines two pieces of code that are listed in the examples ...

To check if the LED strip and power supply work, directly connect your power supply's +12V to the +12V pin of the strip and power supply's ground to each R,G,B pin one at a time to see if they ...

This is a where a Power Mosfet comes in. With the help of the Power Mosfet, we can use the low voltage output from the Arduino ports to control high voltage/current loads -the popular “12V LED strips” ...

Bucking the downward trend [HansLuijten] provides an astoundingly thorough set of LED strip patterns in his comprehensive post titled Arduino LED strip effects.

All are held in place by a ring of hardware with spacers in them, and the RGB LED strip that is used to display time and date wraps around those spacers.