Comments on: LED ambient light strips

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:17:54 +0000

Funny that I just saw this in ikea a few days ago. Theirs has 4 seperate bars of LEDs for 50 bucks with all the stuff, it can cycle through colors as well as just hold one, when it cycles it fades properly.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50119407
This would probably be great to hack, since you've got the whole thing assembled already you could just add different controls to it.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:03:08 +0000

I also made some linux software that’s almost complete, it uses a client/server model that works over udp. Maybe I’ll release it someday.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:25:44 +0000

Thanks for open sourcing it bob :) It's the only one I could find out there.

hal: like will said, it doesn't flicker as much in real life.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:39:02 +0000

Nice to see he’s using my software.

By: Will OBrien

Will OBrien — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:33:23 +0000

Remember that the camera picks up apparent pulses in the lights. The light’s POV effect makes the pulsing invisible to the human eye.

By: Hal Hockersmith

Hal Hockersmith — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:18:24 +0000

YE GODS! SEIZURE TIME.
Ok you really need to add some fade control to that. Your ambient lights are seriously ambient _strobe_ lights. A fade system would make it even more professional. That video was hard to watch.