[Garrett Mace] wrote to us in hopes of finding a few good programmers to help him out with a project he’s been working on for Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
More specifically, he is looking for Processing programmers who are also pretty decent with graphics. Macetech’s big project for this year’s Maker Faire is a large overhead light matrix constructed from Chinese lanterns. They are using their new Satellite LED modules to light the 128-lantern array, which is laid out in a 16×8 matrix.
It seems that the Macetech crew has been so busy getting the array built and tested that they don’t have much time to program any visualizations for it – that’s where you come in. If you are so inclined, simply download his matrix simulation code, put together some cool displays, and send them his way. [Garrett] says that they will be taking video of the visualizations, so even if you can’t attend Maker Faire, we will all be able to enjoy your hard work (though it would be pretty cool if they sent contributors a Satellite LED module “sample” as well!)
Keep reading to see a quick demo video of the simulation software to get an idea of what they are looking for visualization-wise.
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Nice looks like it’ll be fun
Cool, will give this a shot!
Thanks for posting this…looking forward to the cool animations over the next week. You don’t even have to be good at writing code, that’s why we’re using Processing :)
I assume that there is some mechanism in the final application to take the pixellated data and shove it out to the LED controllers? You’re just going to take the algorithm from programs people come up with using your example code and port it into the final system?
Oh, and exactly what publicity do people get for doing this for you? :-)
Will do!
DanJ: There is a mechanism for sending out the data, it works fine but is removed from the simulator to keep things simple.
We’ll credit everyone in the code if they include their info, and release the entire code for anyone to use if they want.