I wanted to build a control box for 2 LED strips of WS2812s. This is for a display in a bedroom, but I also wanted it to be controllable from mobile/desktop, along with multiple colours and brightness controls! How to break it down into components First I needed to work out the different components I needed and how they would be put together, to make sure they fit in the location I wanted but also portable enough if I ever wanted to take them away.