The Adafruit LED Animation Library provides a quick and easy way to get strands or arrays of RGB LEDs blinking in concert. There are several dazzling animations built into the library that are ready to use and can be adapted to different behaviors with configuration arguments. But if none of those built-in animations fits the exact vision you have for your next great project, the LED Animation library also provides a framework for you to create your own custom animations.

This will require more than just a small bit of configuration, but is well within reach if you've slightly comfortable with Python. This guide will explain what goes into making custom animations and show some examples to illustrate different aspects of them.

Parts

Any Neopixel or DotStar compatible RGB LEDs.