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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...]
Hackaday reader [chrysn] picked up a 3-button RGB model DIODER light from IKEA and thought he might as well take it apart to see what he could do with it. Having seen several DIODER hacks featured here, he knew it was easily hackable, but he didn’t want to simply rehash what other had already done. All of the DIODER hacks we have come across thus far incorporate some sort of AVR chip or … [Read more...]
We can order seven segment displays in red, green, yellow, or blue all day long. One thing we haven't seen is an RGB segmented display, so [Markus]' project is really interesting. He took a stock seven segment display and modded it into an RGB display. After taking a Dremel to the back of the stock display, [Markus] was left with a seven segment light mask. A few SMD LEDs were purchased through … [Read more...]
This year, students working for Texas Instruments as part of their Co-op program were challenged to construct a project around the company’s MSP430 microcontroller. A team of three students, [Max Thrun, Mark Labbato, Ian Cathey] decided to build something that would fit perfectly in any college student’s dorm room - an RGB LED coffee table. We’ve covered RGB LED tables in the past, but as … [Read more...]
[Julien] let us know about his ProtoDeck. A MIDIBOX based controller for Ableton Live using a Big Max for live patch interface. One thing that we have seen is less and less hacks for are MIDIbox projects. It is no wonder, considering now a days we have touch screen and multiple other interfaces and sound creation tools - MIDI almost seems like a dying art. The ProtoDeck uses 87 pots, 90 … [Read more...]
[Alex] of tinkerlog created a set of 64 RGB fireflies that synchronize to blink all at once. We covered the kit earlier, but he has assembled a set of 64. Each firefly is independently controlled by an ATtiny13 that reads a phototransistor and lights up an RGB LED. The fireflies are programmed to blink a certain rate, but blink faster if they detect other blinks. After a few cycles, the fireflies … [Read more...]
We covered SparkFun's new RGB button pad controller a few weeks ago. This is a full-color clone of the monome interface; a 4x4 grid of buttons with tri-color LEDs underneath. Each LED has 24bits of color control, for more than 16million color combinations. Up to 10 panels can be chained together to create huge button grids, like SparkFun's Tetris table. We previously used a smaller version in our … [Read more...]
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