Bucking the downward trend [HansLuijten] provides an astoundingly thorough set of LED strip patterns in his comprehensive post titled Arduino LED strip effects.

I conducted my experiments first with the 50xW2811S LED strip, and it functioned well. Power for the pixels was supplied from its own 5V/2A adapter, and data for the pixels from the example code ...

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Anyone interested in creating interactive objects can “play” with Arduino! Described ...

A custom and home-etched PCB using an ATtiny4313 instead of an Arduino are the clock’s brains, a Maxim DS1307 for time-keeping, and a simple rotary encoder as the input for setting the time.