Hi, I'm your average arduino novice. I've got waayy more ambition than I have experience. I've been planning a project for a while now, and I keep running into issues with finding relevant coding tutorials and guides.

I'm trying to figure out how to make individual addressable LEDs, that are all on the same strip, fade in and out at random, cycling through a randomized batch of colors. I keep finding color fading guides, but they all seem to need the color rotation to be set beforehand. This will be used as a decorative lamp, so I would kind of prefer it if I wouldn't be able to notice the pattern after 5 minutes or so.

As for the LED randomization, is that even possible? Can you set it up so that on a strip of 1-10, you can have LED 2 fade into LED 7, which fades into LED 10 and LED 3? My best google fu has come up with not much.

I'm fairly competent on the hardware side of things, it's just that I am fairly new to coding and as such, a lot of the examples of code that I've found tend to go over my head. It is entirely likely that I have found exactly what I am looking for, but I just didn't recognize it for what it was. I've been devouring beginner's tutorials, but there is still a lot of terminology that I just don't have down, yet.

If any of you could point me in the right direction, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!