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product_id: 14215981
title: "FadeCandy - Dithering USB-Controlled Driver for RGB NeoPixels [ADA1689]"
brand: "adafruit"
price: "€ 44.96"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 7
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# Supports 512 vibrant LEDs Plug & play with Raspberry Pi & desktops USB-powered seamless control FadeCandy - Dithering USB-Controlled Driver for RGB NeoPixels [ADA1689]

**Brand:** adafruit
**Price:** € 44.96
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🌈 Light up your world with FadeCandy’s dazzling LED wizardry!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** FadeCandy - Dithering USB-Controlled Driver for RGB NeoPixels [ADA1689] by adafruit
- **How much does it cost?** € 44.96 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- adafruit enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted adafruit brand quality
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## Key Features

- • **Burning Man Proven:** Built for the boldest art projects, trusted by creators who demand standout visual effects.
- • **Massive LED Capacity:** Control up to 512 NeoPixels simultaneously—perfect for large-scale, jaw-dropping installations.
- • **Effortless LED Mastery:** Transform your LED art with smooth dithering and vibrant colors that captivate every eye.
- • **Open Source Innovation:** Join a thriving community with open hardware designed for limitless customization and upgrades.
- • **Plug & Play Versatility:** Connect easily to laptops, desktops, or Raspberry Pi for instant creative freedom.

## Overview

The Adafruit FadeCandy is a USB-controlled LED driver designed to deliver smooth dithering and vibrant color control for up to 512 RGB NeoPixels. Originally crafted for high-profile art installations like Burning Man, it offers plug-and-play compatibility with laptops, desktops, and Raspberry Pi, backed by open source hardware for maximum creative flexibility.

## Description



## Features

- Originally developed to run the Ardent Mobile Cloud Platform, a Burning Man project
- Make LED art projects easier to build and better-looking
- Open source hardware for connecting cheap and popular LEDs to a laptop, desktop, or Raspberry Pi over USB.
- Supports up to 512 LEDs, arranged as 8 strips of 64 each.

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Adafruit
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Compatible Devices:** Server
- **Processor Count:** 1
- **UPC:** 720189972591 700598871180

## Images

![FadeCandy - Dithering USB-Controlled Driver for RGB NeoPixels [ADA1689] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71vqUxg4i3L.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Works as stated.
  

*by F***E on Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2014*

Just started playing around and this thing works as promised.  Don't know how to create a stand alone project as I'm only familiar with the Arduino platform but I'm confident that some genius will figure it out for the rest of us.

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    FADE CANDY TIME TO UPDATE YOUR PROCESSING PROGRAM SO IT HAS ALL IT NEEDS TO RUN
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2020*

Looks like a great project and device.... until you attempt to use thier processing program to program the device which never works because it can never find all of the libraries it needs and then it just missing this missing that. This is garbage. here let me help you.1. If you are going to office example programs make sure you include everything needed to run it. No one likes doing all this work only to find out the program you wanted to use to see how well it worked just throws error after error becuase fadecandy can not be bothered to update thier examples and libraries and program. I bought 2 of these one I can no longer return. The 2nd not going to bother with a company that can't keep current with their website.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Works well
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2019*

Was brought to replace an older unit that used batteries.This being rechargeable makes the unit much smaller than the old one, it is also a much nicer looking modern unit .Works well and is simple to set up and use

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*Last updated: 2026-04-24*