In recent years, integrated platforms equipped with microcontrollers (with Arduino probably being the best-known brand) have been gaining popularity.
If you happen to be in the market for a small artificial sun, you may be interested to know that for about $1300, you can get a tennis-ball-sized LED array that outputs 120,000 lumens.
A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812) LEDs or also SPI based chipsets like the WS2801 and APA102!