1m Addressable RGB LED Strip, 5V, 32 LEDs/m, Waterproof, WS2801 Complete 24-Bit Color, 4 Pin JST-SM Connectors Before Soldering for Both Ends

• Fully addressable 24-bit color with a simple SPI data stream
• Only 4 wires to connect - Red = 5V, Black = Earth, Yellow = Data, Green = Clock
• Waterproof for outdoor installations

Not your average RGB LED strip! Not only are they fully waterproof, but each LED is also addressable independently, opening up completely new lighting possibilities. Each LED is powered by a WS2801 IC. Each end of the tape has 4 wires leading to a JST-SM connector, female for input and male for output. If you don't need a connection to another chain, you can cut off the male output connector and use it to connect it to the female connector. The connectors can also be removed completely if they are not needed for your application - there is plenty of lead wire to allow direct solder connection. For Arduino users, we highly recommend the open-source fastspi library as a jump point for your own code. The WS2801 uses a 2-wire serial data connection, similar to SPI or I2C. Integrated circuits are chained which means that entire chains can be controlled using only 2 pins on your microcontroller. The data starts with the MSB of the red gray scale data and ends with the LSB of the blue gray scale data.