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Or just buy a cheap ESP32 board and a cheap WS2812 matrix from Ali Express. Cheap, works perfectly and easy to get started with due to good libraries.

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Thanks, I’m new to all this - is that easy to connect to the board?

Yes, super simple. Besides power it is essentially a one wire connection to drive a thousand+ LEDs.

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