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Hello and thank you for reading this. I posted something similar before, but removed it because I wasn't very clear on what I wanted to do. It was bad.

On the ceiling in my basement (game room/office), I would like the above pattern of LED strips and flood lights. I haven't bought any of these, yet, so I am open to suggestions based on wants/needs. Here is what I am looking to do:

• Be able to control each LED on the strips individually. There will be 8 strips at about 1 meter a piece. I'm not sure about the LED (pixel?) density, yet.
• Control each flood individually. There are 4 in total as shown by the solid boxes above.

I realize that the pixel density will greatly influence the power needs for this. For sake of conversation, let's say we are going with 144 pixels/meter. (~1,152 total)

I have two ways to look at the strips as I'm pretty sure the floods would have their own power supply:

1. One strip of lights segmented into 8 section with jumper wire between the sections;
   1. Would this be easier to program (Those questions are coming up);
   2. Would this be harder to manage when it comes to electricity?;
2. Eight separate strips.

Let's talk about programming/controlling.

• Would an Arduino Uno be able to run this?
• Would I need an external power supply for the strips?
• Could I break each strip into separate arrays creating an array of arrays, so to speak?
• Could I break the floods out as separate entities from the strips?

I know this is a lot and I'm open to any advice or links.

Because we are redoing the basement, the chance of having the electrician put additional outlets in the ceiling are good. This is why I'm tackling this now.