Disco isn’t dead: diy dance floor spotted at student parties

June 18, 2011 By 15 Comments
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Your party is lame if it doesn't include interactive blinking lights on the dance floor. [Mario] and [Lukas] didn't want to have lame parties, so they enlisted some fellow students to build an interactive dance floor (translated). The finished party-piece is 4 meters by 2.5 meters (that's about 13'x8' for us yanks) and includes 160 lighted squares. But it's the electronics that really make this a … [Read more...]

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LED floor lamp really ties the room together

March 28, 2011 By 12 Comments
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Instructables user [lincomatic] was doing some home decorating and was trying to find something that would really tie the room together. He decided against adding a nice rug, a light fixture is what he was after. Rather than settle on a simple lamp for the corner of the room, he constructed an 8x8 RGB LED fixture he calls the Lampduino. He constructed the 8x8 grid using some leftover cardboard … [Read more...]

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Disco Bar completed

March 27, 2006 By 29 Comments

David Worden let us know that he has completed work on his Disco Bar which we covered earlier. To save his bandwidth, I suggest you watch the video on YouTube. … [Read more...]

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