That was my first intuition as well, seeing the brigthness limited to 0x1f. With any luck, the power supply might have a fuse, and it's just the fuse that blew

That was my first intuition as well, seeing the brigthness limited to 0x1f. With any luck, the power supply might have a fuse, and it's just the fuse that blew up. Anyway, if you can't salvage it, standard WS281x LED strings can be hooked up to a Raspberry Pi and you could use my open source addressable LED controller :) https://github.com/mbevand/ledthemfight https://github.com/mbevand/ledthemfight It comes with built-in effects. I made it very modular so for the DIY crowd, in 2 lines of Python, you can create simple custom LED effect modules. See a demo here: https://youtu.be/qpd2rILsnM4 https://youtu.be/qpd2rILsnM4