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that's all you need.

A matching Barrel Jack.

This will give you a way to connect your power supply to the

LEDs. There are many options, but Adafruit sells a basic

jack that will work with the power supply we're using.

An Adafruit NeoMatrix.

These are the lights you'll be controlling in this tutorial. This

one board has 64 of the WS2812 pixels, and it's the perfect

size for one of the Fadecandy controller's eight output pins.

Some things to cast light on.

It's fun to have some objects to illuminate. You can use

anything as long as it's not electrically conductive

or especially heat-sensitive. Some ideas:

• Paper

• Marbles

• Glass jars or vases

• Translucent plastic

• Shiny ceramics

• Cloth