See the SmartLED expo sign in the Lounge

[Erik Olson]

In the Lounge, you can check out the SmartLED sign that I put together for our Awesmic City Expo table.

Clio helped construct it and Riley performed surgery to find and replace the 2 LEDs I fried with the soldering iron.

Just plug in the power brick - software is on Arduino. It's mostly the Adafruit demo with color effects.

I keep getting more ideas for the sign. I started implementing a dissolve effect and a pixel group effect and will port my Sunrise effect. I intended to have a servo making a bat fly around. Maybe with magnets.  Then there is rear-projection video... some gears in the corners... laser vector drawing system... wireless... a built-in Asteroids game... seriously, my brain won't stop. But for now it's a yellow rectangular sign with our name on it lit by 3 rows of blinky lights.

The software will stay Arduino and be available for hacking. 

If you want to go ahead and hack it, just grab the Adafruit_Neopixel library, open the example program and change it to 114 LEDs, then upload to the 'duino.

I guess I will put it up as a Hosted Tool for events.

Erik

[rc3105]

hrm, sounds like a job for an attiny on a custom pcb reading patterns from an sd card ;-)