Eight addressable RGB LEDs on a compact rectangular board. The rectangle-format sibling of our WS2812 ring — every LED individually controllable from a single data pin, perfect for status bars, light-up trims, prop details, and anywhere a straight edge suits the design better than a circle. Choose a white or black board to match your project.
One data pin drives the whole module — chainable via DIN/DOUT pads to add more
5V power, works with the FastLED and Adafruit NeoPixel libraries
Plays nicely with ESP32, Arduino, and other 3.3V/5V microcontrollers
White or black PCB — pick the one that disappears into (or pops against) your build
Good to know
Ships unsoldered: through-hole pads accept wires or header pins. It's an easy first soldering job — we have a video tutorial showing exactly how.
Want it ready to plug in? Our Neo Tester is the same 8-LED format fully assembled by hand — headers soldered (straight or 90°), heat-shrink protected, labelled, and tested - all in Nova Scotia.
Pair it with an ESP32 dev board and a few hook-up wires and you're animating in minutes.
Each LED is addressable as the driver chip is inside the LED. Each one has ~18 mA constant current drive so the colour will be very consistent even if the voltage varies, and no external choke resistors are required — making the design slim. Power the whole thing with 5 VDC (4–7 V works) and you’re ready to rock.
The LEDs are chainable by connecting the output of one stick into the input of another. There is a single data line with a very timing-specific protocol. Since the protocol is sensitive to timing, it requires a real-time microcontroller such as an AVR, Arduino, PIC, mbed, etc.
