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Challenge 3: The new output in action

Watch how the lights you just coded work in real life

A demonstration of the red, green, blue lights working in real life.

There are lots of different types of light strips, some are 100s of LEDs long. You can even get light matrices – a square of LEDs that you could scroll text across or display animations.

What would you display on your light strip?

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