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17 years ago

Electronics Newbie question concerning LEDs

Hi all, I am an electronics newbie, and I am trying to design an guitar that has a light up fretboard. To do this I need to control about 120 individual, single color LEDs, and I am having trouble...
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17 years ago

Again, thanks for the input everyone! I do like Niki's idea of strobe matrixing, but I'm confused on what parts I would need. Are there any suggestions of microcontrollers and other parts that I would need? I would like to use my laptop to control the lights that go on