scanlime

Tag: LED Lighting

  • Fadecandy video updates

    Fadecandy video updates

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    I’ve been super busy lately, working on a new installation. I’m excited to document the process more at some point, but for now I have some videos to share with new LED effects I’ve been working on:

  • Fadecandy on the Making Embedded Systems podcast

    Fadecandy on the Making Embedded Systems podcast

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    I recently had the opportunity to speak with Elecia White on the Making Embedded Systems podcast about Fadecandy. The conversation ranged from beautiful LED control algorithms and open source embedded projects to triangle tessellations, art, and identity.

  • Standalone WiFi Fadecandy server

    Standalone WiFi Fadecandy server

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    This week, nemik posted a package for OpenWRT that makes it really easy to run the Fadecandy server on a cheap battery-powered WiFi router. I just got my router in the mail, and I recorded a quick video demo.

  • Fadecandy: How it’s made

    Fadecandy: How it’s made

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    I was at the Adafruit warehouse in Manhattan a couple weeks back, where we ran the first Fadecandy boards through their assembly line. The boards are now in the Adafruit catalog, and we made a video about the manufacturing process.

  • Presentation at GAFFTA Creative Code Meetup VII

    Presentation at GAFFTA Creative Code Meetup VII

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    I gave a talk at the GAFFTA Creative Code Meetup back in November. It was a brief overview of my recent work including Zen Photon Garden, High Quality Zen, the Ardent Mobile Cloud Platform, and Fadecandy. It includes a live demo of Fadecandy, starting at 18:43. Creative Code Meetup VII- Micah Elizabeth Scott from GAFFTA…

  • Fadecandy Controller available from Adafruit

    Fadecandy Controller available from Adafruit

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    The Fadecandy controller (initially announced here) is a new USB interface board for making more expressive art installations using the widely available WS2811 “NeoPixel” LED strips. It controls up to 8 strips of 64 LEDs, and it includes a unique dithering algorithm to help you quickly get the best quality color from each of your…

  • Fadecandy: Easier, tastier, and more creative LED art

    Fadecandy: Easier, tastier, and more creative LED art

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    I’ve been working on a project lately that I’m really eager to share with the world: A kit of hardware and software parts to make LED art projects easier to build and better-looking, so sculptors and makers and multimedia artists can concentrate on building beautiful things instead of reinventing the wheel. I call it Fadecandy.

  • LEDboard/144

    LEDboard/144

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    This is a 9×16 LED matrix I made by hand back in 2004, with LEDs I had left over from another, even sillier project. It has a USB interface powered by a PIC16C765 microcontroller, one of the first to feature a built-in USB device interface. This video post is something of a eulogy for the…

  • Lego Sky

    Lego Sky

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    Over the weekend, I had a chance to finish up a project that I started (and immediately became distracted from) several weeks ago. In our house, Paul and I have a game room. This is where the video games live, as well as other assorted geekery. We have Magic cards, D&D books, some manga.. it’s…

  • R/C helicopter lights, Revision A.5

    R/C helicopter lights, Revision A.5

    —

    by

    micah
    in

    Atmel is going to personally revoke my electrical engineering license if they ever find out what’s in that yellow heat-shrink blob, but I now have a shiny new 5 gram version of my helicopter light kit =D This version has all the same remote-control dimming and strobe capabilities of the heavier Revision A. The only…