so i need a crash course in atinys any good books or forum posts?
They exist, they come in different flavors. There’s your crash course. What specifically do you want to know/learn?
sorry i should have been more specific my main goal is to use them for simple operations with small numbers of ws2812 bulb strips (less then 100) im ok in arduino programing and setup my question being is there anything that i need to know before i get started?
also where is there a general preference on where to get them?
thank you both 
super easy. I get mine from digikey or jameco. search for posts by me from this forum.
ok cool thanx
actually i didnt recognize the profile pic was hoping you would respond you do a lot of what im trying to learn haha
Yeah, they are very easy to work with. If you want to use the Arduino IDE, you need to download the tiny cores and install them. That will also tell you which tinys it works with. Search Google for the cores.
perfect thanks
https://code.google.com/p/arduino-tiny/
Works with ATtiny84 (84/44/24), ATtiny85 (85/45/25), and ATtiny2313 (4313) processors.
I believe you will have a hard time getting a attiny to running 100 ws2812’s
really? what do you think the common ammount should be?
Should be different for each sketch depending on size of the code. I was about get 26 running in a rainbow fade could probably get more with a more efficient code. But being efficient is currently beyond me lol.
haha same with me so 20 is probably my limit haha
Give me a few days. I have a few tinys laying around here. Let me code one up and see how many pixels I can push “comfortably”. My child has a concert tonight and tomorrow night so I’m somewhat occupied, especially since I’m running both the light and sound boards.
that sounds like a lot of fun thank you im in no hurry
It’s fun, till you consider that I’m also recording the performance (not from the soundboard), and taking pictures for the whole show, so I’ll be walking back and forth.
Life of a high school parent.
Also 100 ws2812’s use a bit of power. So keep that in mind too.