[Noisebridge-discuss] light show volunteer?

[Dan Cote]

2811 strips are really cool. They now have an arduino library.
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel

I make a kit that comes with 2801 pixels and arduino. It's designed to be a
teaching tool for classes. I've brought it with me to Hack the Future and a
couple of Circuit Hacking Mondays. I still have to develop the curriculum,
but it can be used to teach arduino programming, sensors, soldering, and
lots more. I'm calling this project Luminous, and the eventual goal is to
make an automated indoor lighting system that reacts to the people in the
room. A stretch goal would be to cover the entire ceiling of Noisebridge
with 1 pixel per sq/ft and power it with solar. All my work on this is
released under open licenses.
https://github.com/terminationshok/DynamicReactiveLighting
http://luminousintensityy.com

I am totally interested in teaching as well.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:56 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:

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> Wow! When's the class?
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> On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 13:47 -0800, Garrett Mace wrote:
> > On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:38 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >    Thanks for your reply. Seems right to me.
> > >
> > >    Also maybe LED types per chemistry, light temperature,
> > > heat temperature, lumens per watt, electro-mechanical form
> > > factors and availability, ways to vary light temperature
> > > and brightness, applications for red- and for green- and
> > > for blue-only LEDs.
> > >    Maybe also various LED drivers (light engines and
> > > otherwise), availability and near-future trends.
> > >    Maybe cheap hacks (interesting things to do with
> > > strings of LED Xmas lights), good tools, best practices,
> > > how to adapt to 12VDC and 120VAC and maybe 240VAC (for
> > > other nations' electrical grids), solar panel outputs
> > > control interfaces (audio systems, light sensors...)?
> > >
> >
> >
> > Good stuff there. Anyone can blink an LED on an Arduino, but eventually
> you see people asking in the Arduino forums why their new 700mA LED doesn't
> light up when connected directly to an I/O. Scaling up offers plenty of
> challenges. Good power supplies are crucial. And all the best LED driver
> ICs are surface mount, with visible pins only if you're lucky.
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