Hello
I have a new mustang with a Shelby style hood (knight rider). Thus i Would like to make my self a Kitt saner light... But The new KITT light is different from the original. The new kit basically has 2 light bars, one on the left and one on the right.
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The Light starts form center moving out, lighting both bars to where all leds are on. Then the bars would fad out starting form the center. Next the bars would light from the outer ends of the bar going to center until the bars are completely on and once again the bar would fad out this time form the end to the center….. and so on ----

I Think i would be able to do it with 40 LEDs. 20 per each side. This is not a set number. I was have just received my Arduino Diemilanove yesterday. After some work on the bead board i have the look of what i want on a small scale, only 7 led currently. I was looking at the BlinkM's when i came across these. I like the price of these a lot better then the BlinkM's.

What would be my better option these or the BlinkM. The main reason i like the blinkm is the fact i just run them in a line add 5v and they run the program standalone. I don't understand enough about the how to use the shiftbrites to understand how to wire them to the board and write the program. I plan on it being a blue light so i am not really worried to much about a lot of color changing, just fading.

thanks for the help

here is the effect i want http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5yJt55JJQ