So, let’s take a look at the electronics part of the project, which is basically a display unit and control hardware; the first is, as we already mentioned, a matrix divided into rows, each one composes by a LED strip segment. Using a Neopixel RGB LED strip allows us to address each single LED and choose the color individually, among all the possible tones, and a range of 256 combinations for each base color (therefore we have 256×256×256 combinations!) for a total of 16,777,216 colors.

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