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Arduino library for controlling strips/pixels using WS2801 driver chips

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Example library for driving Adafruit WS2801 pixels!

Designed specifically to work with the Adafruit RGB Pixels! 12mm Bullet shape ----> https://www.adafruit.com/products/322 12mm Flat shape ----> https://www.adafruit.com/products/738 36mm Square shape ----> https://www.adafruit.com/products/683

These pixels use SPI to transmit the color data, and have built in high speed PWM drivers for 24 bit color per pixel 2 pins are required to interface

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Written by Limor Fried/Ladyada for Adafruit Industries.
BSD license, all text above must be included in any redistribution


To download. click the DOWNLOADS button in the top right corner, rename the uncompressed folder Adafruit_WS2801. Check that the WS2801 folder contains Adafruit_WS2801.cpp and Adafruit_WS2801.h

Place the Adafruit_WS2801 library folder your /libraries/ folder. You may need to create the libraries subfolder if its your first library. Restart the IDE.

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