Hi, Please guide me which Arduino board/Arduino controller should I use to program the led strips. Looking for your best recommendations.
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The best one is obviously this one:
With 8GB of RAM and the highest possible Arduino price tag available, no doubt that this is the best.
The second option is this one:
With the most possible output pins and WiFi, it will control the LEDs rather well.
With a better understanding of what LEDs you are controlling, the above suggestions will most likely be completely useless for your project. Something simpler and significantly less expensive is more commonly used for controlling LEDs.
what about Arduino Nano v3 ATmega328?
Not the best. One of the least expensive (clone). But works.
You asked for the best without describing what "best" means to you. You didn't even say what type of strips you plan to use.
Main limitations of the Nano V3 are it's limited memory. It had only 2KB of RAM/dynamic memory and 32KB of flash/storage memory.
If using ws28xx strips, most Arduino libraries for controlling strips need 3 (4 for RGBW strips) bytes of RAM per pixel. This means you might be able to control a strip of 500 RGB or 400 RGBW pixels. Less, if your code is complex or inefficient.
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Sorry, I mean the suitable when I say the 'best'.
Even more vague than "best"!
At least there is a commonly assumed meaning of "best" which is the highest quality or performance regardless of price. "suitable" is highly specific to a particular context, of which you have told us close to nothing.
So if you mean an Arduino suitable for controlling LEDs, pretty much any Arduino can do that. But how many and what type of LEDs?
For LED control, I use either an Arduino Uno or a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB RAM. Both are very suitable for LED control in very different applications. Until you describe to us exactly what LEDs you will control and exactly how many LEDs you will control, you can rephrase your question many more times and still not get any useful answers.
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