LED Striplight project

I'm trying to build a lighting system using a heap of LED strip lights - like those that are on a reel. Anyone have any experience with anything like this? I could do with 1 - knowing a reasonable price and place to source the LED strips 2 - knowing what i need to do to power these - are there any gotchas? 3 - knowing what i need to do to make this work from a lighting box for a stage I'm assuming this can be RPi driven

Yes, and "on reel" there are many different types. 1. Single LEDs 2. Multiple coloured LEDs: - RGB /Red, Green, Blue) - RGBW ( W=White) 3. Addressable LEDs 1 - knowing a reasonable price and place to source the LED strips This depends on quality, delivery time and amount. 2 - knowing what I need to do to power these - are there any gotchas? WLED has a toon of info about this and even a calculator. 3 - knowing what I need to do to make this work from a lighting box for a stage No. Perhaps the WLED discord is the right forum to ask that. Note a single i is always a capital i = I.

"WLED has a toon..." what is a WLED toon please? I'm trying to get my head around how I can drive LEDs from an RPi (or via DMX - or both!)

Definitely only bothered about single (white) LEDs for the moment.

incidentally, the i is an interesting one - it's only been like that since the 1700s, and that's because of the advent of printing presses where it was hard to distinguish. It's meant to be lowercase really, but it's been a bit of a trend. English is an ever evolving language and it looks like the i is reverting to the lowercase way again as we move forward. But the context is fascinating, especially for me as an ex-printer publisher!

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED

oh is this for WiFi? Definitely not for me. I'm wanting to use this on a theatre stage ultimately.