The controller module holds a single 3-pin male-header (5V-DATA-GND pins) to plug the RGB Pixel LED strip connector (RED-GREEN-WHITE wires). ... So, I replaced the huge LED strip with a CJMCU LED ...

However, [Adrian Studer] proved that driving WS2812-based LED strips like the NeoPixel series doesn’t necessarily require hand-optimized assembly code. In fact, it doesn’t require any code at all.

Commodity electronics manufacturing is a tough game. If you come out with a world-beating product, like WorldSemi did with the WS2812B addressable RGB LED “pixel”, you can be pretty sur… ...

The LongPixel is able to drive 12-24V Common Anode RGB LED analog strips (the kind that have +V, R, G, and B wires). By using the WS2801 LED driver chip, multiple LongPixels can be chained ...