In the first episode of this new miniseries, we look at how to get started with the FastLED library for addressable LEDs. We cover what FastLED is, what hardware we will need and how to start coding. Finally, we get our LED strip to light for the first time and display some patterns.

In the next video we will look at how FastLED handles color as there is rather a lot to cover there!

GitHub link for code: https://github.com/smarley/FastLEDb...
'The Hook Up' video on choosing an LED strip:    • LED Strips, what's the difference? WS...  

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00:00 Intro
00:45 What is FastLED?
01:56 Hardware
05:16 Powering your LEDs
07:10 Building the circuit
09:26 First patterns