Adafruit DotStar Digital LED Strip - Black 144 LED/m - One Meter kit 1 Stranded jumper wires (black)

1 Stranded jumper wires (black)

Solder three jumpers and you can use it at full speed on a Leonardo or Mega as well

5V tolerant inputs - Hook up your Pi to accept input from 5V systems (like Arduino Uno/Leonardo or 5V Trinkets)

For power-users

yet there are a few things to watch for

Adafruit DotStar Digital LED Strip - Black 144 LED/m - One Meter kit 1 Stranded jumper wires (black)These fancy DotStar LED strips are a great upgrade for people who have loved and used NeoPixel strips for a few years but want something even better. DotStar LEDs use generic 2 wire SPI, so you can push data much faster than with the NeoPixel 800 KHz protocol and there's no specific timing required. They also have much higher PWM refresh rates, so you can do Persistence of Vision (POV) and have less flickering, particularly at low brightness levels.