There are several types of LED strips but this article will focus on driving LED arrays which use WS2811 4 and WS2812 4 driver chips. This is in part because products like Adafruit’s NeoPixel strips ...

While many of these POV setups use custom PCBs and discrete LEDs, [Andrew]’s design uses readily available off-the-shelf components: WS2811 LED strips, an Arduino, an Invensense IMU breakout ...