Playing with BlinkyTape, an RGB LED strip with integrated USB controller, using a RaspberryPi and a Windows7 PC.
Code was borrowed wholesale from BlinkinLabs' Python library and example for the BlinkyTape
Based on painful connection lessons learned, BlinkyTape.py has been tweaked to (try and) auto-detect the port/device name via which BlinkyTape has been connected - encapsulated in private method __identify_port.
Some simple animations have been created in sequences.py.