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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FSuxA-cp4 Our Oculus Rift finally arrived in the mail. I'll spare you my thoughts on the item itself other than to say it is amazing. There are tons of videos to choose from that show people's thoughts and reactions, and Ifixit has their usual detailed teardown as well. The mod I decided to tackle first was the horizontal peripheral vision lights. The shape … [Read more...]
There are a lot of hacks out there for Ikea's Dioder LED light set. [Lambertus] wanted to create an easy and affordable ambilight while keeping the hardware modifications to a minimum. He also wanted anyone to be able to easily duplicate his work. He recently wrote in to share his successful solution. The customizations boil down to three main steps: solder the ICSP connector wires to the test … [Read more...]
The Ambilight system - built in to high-end Phillips TVs - is a neat system to add a bit of ambiance to regular television viewing. With this system, a series of RGB LEDs are mounted to the rear of the TV to respond to whatever is currently being displayed. [Lovro] came up with a very simple way to add an ambilight system to his computer monitor using only a handful of components. Unlike other … [Read more...]
[Garrett Mace] decided to beef up his 58 inches of plasma with 60 Watts of LED lighting. After seeing a ton of Ambilight clones using his LED modules, he's built his own powerful system. Not surprisingly, it's nothing short of professional-grade work. Kudos to [Garrett] for showing the entire process in the video after the break. We're talking about his planning stages, which are so often left … [Read more...]
The latest and greatest ambilight clone, the Adalight, comes from the fruitful mind and cluttered workbench of the sometimes Hack A Day contributor [Phil Burgess]. We've seen a few clones of the Philips ambilight tech, but [Phil] knocked this one out of the park. The hardware is a string of 12mm RGB LEDs connected to the Arduino of your choosing. After attaching the LEDs to the rear of the TV … [Read more...]
[Don] put together a guide that will help you build your own Ambilight Clone for about $40 plus the cost of an Arduino. He's using it with the HTPC seen above, and utilized modular concepts in building it so that you can easily disconnect your Arduino board when you want to use it for prototyping. For RGB light sources [Don] grabbed six ShiftBrite modules. These are fully addressable … [Read more...]
Here's an altered PCB that gives USB control to an Ikea Dioder. This is a $50 product that comes with four strips each containing nine RGB LEDs. The stock controller has a color selection wheel and a couple of buttons. [Rikard Lindström] wanted to use it to match ambient light to the colors of his computer monitor -- yes, it's another ambilight clone. Since he already had a bunch of AT90USB162 … [Read more...]
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