Lightpack – USB content-driving ambient lighting system
Atarity writes to inform us of a project being developed in Russia known as the Lightpack 5.5, with an English language wiki page available. The software analyzes the image on your monitor and...
View ArticleProcessing + Arduino + touchOSC
Adrianmb from Make-a-tronik has written a tutorial on how to how to communicate between your mobile device (Android / iOS device) or a PC and Arduino through a protocol known as OSC (Open Sound...
View ArticleTheater light show project
Here is a light show project from North Street Labs built for the Hippodrome. They built 7 large LED panels that are controlled trough an RS-485 link. Each panel has 86 RGB LEDs and an Arduio...
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New member of the WS2812 family
cpldcpu writes: What’s pretty cool about these LEDs is that they are diffuse – no more blinding unidirectional light. This might be very useful for indicator lights. Furthermore, you can easily wire...
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Build a 16 million color WiFi-controlled LED lamp
Tom Van den Bon and Sebastian Schocke of Binary Space, a makerspace in the Vaal Triangle, have put together this build challenge for their members. For December at Binary Space we wanted to do...
View ArticleLED strip testing with Bus Pirate
Drew tested out some addressable RGB LEDs he bought during Hacker Camp, using a Bus Pirate. Via Shenzhen_hacker_hole WeChat group. The LDP6803 uses SPI for communication. A power supply and a Bus...
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Fake TV security light
Marcus Jenkins writes, “I made this gadget which steps up the game from leaving a light on at home when you’re out. Place in near a window to make it look like somebody’s at home watching TV. ”...
View ArticleCool room lights
Dmitry Grinberg writes, “Lighting a room is always a complicated task. This is especially true if you’re an engineer. You see, we all love blinking lights, RGB LEDs, really any combination of those...
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A connected lamp to wake me up
Limpkin writes, “I’ve always wanted to play with these 10W RGB LEDs! So for some reason I bought 2 IKEA lamps at a flea market. As IKEA furniture has a long history of being hacker-friendly, I figured...
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SNAFU box
A SNAFU box project by Bertho of Vagrearg: SNAFU Box consists of 24 LED strips (12V passive type) of varying size, which are controlled by a set of 74HC595 shift-registers and a transistor driver for...
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