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# 12mm LED Pixels

## Project Ideas

These pixels could be used for stuff like…  
  
An LED coffee table (this one was “hand made” some time ago…now you could simply use a long strand of our LED pixels and skip the complicated wiring and&nbsp;driver parts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj1j1-dIX6k&amp;feature=player_embedded

A trippy “light bar”:http://player.vimeo.com/video/16297109

Signs and displays:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkrZbBEqcjo&amp;feature=player_embedded

A ball of LEDs:http://player.vimeo.com/video/16303734

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