Thanks for the kind words guys, I really appreciate it.
Neither actually. Better than Christmas lights, but not as fancy as Arduino. I'm just using the 16' 5050 RGB LEDs cut into 6 strips and using the standard flash patterns that are programmed into the module. I initially bought this to use white super bright LEDs as a constant-on backlight. I had given up on using fluorescent lighting as it was just too bulky and rope lighting was too hard to work with and didn't provide enough light. But when I fired this up for the initial test it came up in a full color flashing pattern and I was just blown away.
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