Scott Lawson

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Writing about things I've built and what I learned from building them.

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Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

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I spent years building one of the most popular LED strip visualizers on GitHub. It's the kind of project that's easy to get started but diabolically hard to master.