Individually addressable LED strips

[winVIP]

My plan is to buy two Individually addressable LED strips and I want to make them controllable wirelessly through my PC, so I wanted to ask you how you guys would go about it, what do I need to make them wirelessly controllable, if there even is such gear that I can buy, I don't want to buy something like the Philips Hue because it's quite expensive and I want to program the LEDs myself.

[Dujith]

Best bet would be to use an Arduino as controller (with a WIFI shield).

That way you'll have control yourself, plus there are many guides on howto.

[Hopalonghacksaw]

There is a great Program made for the esp8266. It has a Webserver running on the Esp8266 then you can edit values there with very little software. Its a great arduino project that is a bit complex but I have used it and the instrutions are pretty good. It might seem overwhelming but I can help walk you through the process if you need it. I also belive that there is a video or 2 that shows instuctions also. https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver/blob/master/README.md