My new addressable LED strips have arrived! I bought both 30 and 60 LEDs per meter (I'm really digging 60 per meter). The arduino and the strip runs perfectly off a single 5v 500mA USB port on my laptop which leaves me hopeful that  Kyralie will be able to use smaller batteries and have it last longer than our first experiment did.

Now I gotta figure out where blue begins and ends with RGB values. Should be easy but it's driving me nuts.