Everybody loves blinky LEDs, but what do you do with them once you've got them to not catch fire? A veteran LED addict presents a selection of tips, tricks, and cheats (oh god so many cheats) for getting your project to, well, shine.

- LED types (RGB, RGBW, RGBWW, WWA, WTF?)

- Getting away with the bare minimum (six sine waves and a bitmap)

- Gamma correction, why and how?

- Easing functions

- Optimisation (cheating)

- Geometry and localisation

- When to random

- How not to random

- An exclusive collection of my personal fuckups