Time and date clock does it with RGB LED strips

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[Craig's] color clock really came together quite nicely. The majority of the body is acrylic, with two large clear squares and a pair of colored discs. All are held in place by a ring of hardware with spacers in them, and the RGB LED strip that is used to display time and date wraps around those spacers. This hides the components in the center, with a USB cord connecting to the Arduino compatible … [Read more...]

StripInvaders puts colored lights everywhere

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There's not much to be gained by living in a discotheque but colored lights are awesome, especially when they're as well implemented as [michu]'s StripInvaders. The StripInvaders project takes a gigantic 5 meter LED strip with WS2801 controllers and turns it into an Ethernet-enabled 24 bit display with the new Arduino Ethernet. While the Ethernet-enabled may seem a little superflous, [michu] … [Read more...]

Making a simple addressable array from LED strips

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[Patrick] was prepping for some future projects he had in mind, for which he will need a simple 2D array of addressable LEDs. While it is certainly possible for him to build his own LED array and control hardware, he thought he would try out some off the shelf products to see if something might fit his needs. He picked up a strip of addressable RGB LEDs from Adafruit, and while they worked very … [Read more...]