Hardware

Connect WS2812 strip to GPIO18 of Raspberry

User library

Library: https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x Installation:

sudo apt-get install scons
git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x
cd rpi_ws281x
sudo scons
sudo ./test

Kernel driver

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=146535