My "GeekZebo", using Arduino(ish) to control neo-Pixel lights.
One of my favorite things to do in the summer is listen to music on my patio. We bought one of those "fancy" metal gazebos that they sell at the home improvement store and put it on our patio to save ourselves from the mosquitos that swarm Minnesota in the summertime, and to allow us to enjoy the outdoors even in some of the more inclement weather that shows up here from time-to-time. I noticed that there was a tiny "shelf" above the mosquito netting that looked like a great place to install strip lights, so I thought - why not geek up the place while I'm at it. So I installed some neo-Pixels. What are neo-Pixels? If you're not familiar with neo-Pixels, at their core they're LED strip lights. What makes them extra cool is that they expose a way to address either a single LED (for most 5V systems) or a group of 3 LEDs (in a 12v system), and you can turn them on and off, or set them to any color you can think of. Once you set them, they stay that color u