I just released a new project called Strip­In­vaders. It’s basi­cally a Pix­elIn­vaders in one dimen­sion. Strip­In­vaders dri­ves a 5m long LED strip and dis­play some fancy ani­ma­tion. I use a Arduino Eth­er­net as dri­ver, so no exter­nal hard­ware is used. Some fea­tures of StripInvaders:

  • 15 dif­fer­ent color modes
  • Con­trol Strip­In­vaders with a Smart­phone or Tablet
  • Step­less adjust the RGB value and the ani­ma­tion delay
  • Bon­jour and mDNS support
  • DHCP sup­port
  • All fits into the 30kb firmware
  • The firmware is released on GitHub
  • Strips avail­able on my PixelInvaders.ch shop

Strip­In­vaders will color up your flat, take a look at those images:





 

StripInvaders Light System

9 Comments

  • 1 MauiJerry wrote:

    Cool project. I like the look of tablet interface.

    The GitHub does not include the ws2801 code required for con­trol. I’ve been work­ing with sim­i­lar strips from AdaFruit — 2 ver­sions, each with own controller.

    Com­ments on Hack-a-day posts claim there are cheaper strips direct from china — but you may not get the same con­troller chips, and will not get usable doc­u­men­ta­tion. AdaFruit talks a bit about dif­fi­cul­ties reverse engi­neer­ing the con­trol protocol.

    December 27, 2011 at 02:37 Permalink

  • 2 michu wrote:

    hey, check the header of StripInvaders.ino file, there you find all needed libraries!

    December 27, 2011 at 09:23 Permalink

  • 3 MauiJerry wrote:

    Thanks. I found soft­ware depen­den­cies in com­ments at top of StripInvaders.ino. Per­haps you could add these to the readme/github descrip­tion so peo­ple can get them all at the same time. I often down­load then go offline to read & digest. Get­ting all at same time gives a big­ger feast.

    Have you seen the new adafruit demo for their PWM’d address­able wire? Some neat code tricks.

    I really like your tablet inter­face. Gives me great ideas for my own LED Strip instal­la­tions. Thanks.

    December 27, 2011 at 19:18 Permalink

  • 4 Brent wrote:

    What OSC con­troller are you using? Is there a con­trol application/configuration you recommend?

    January 4, 2012 at 00:41 Permalink

  • 5 michu wrote:

    for the iOS dudes, Tou­chOSC, for Android Con­trol by Char­lie Roberts. If you know oth­ers, just let me know!

    January 4, 2012 at 08:36 Permalink

  • 6 Rudy wrote:

    Great imple­men­ta­tion, what would the effort be to map the LPD 6803 chipset library ?
    Is this doable ?
    Thanks,
    Rudy

    February 29, 2012 at 20:49 Permalink

  • 7 michu wrote:

    Should be pretty easy yes, as there are alot of imple­men­ta­tions around. I’m look­ing for­ward to your github pull request ;)

    February 29, 2012 at 20:52 Permalink
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    8 JP wrote:

    Hi,
    Great job with this!
    I have it all set up & have tested using ser­ial. Im want­ing to con­trol using android. I down­loaded android con­trol as sug­gested, but have no idea how to con­fig­ure it, do you have any pointers?

    April 17, 2012 at 08:25 Permalink

  • 9 michu wrote:

    Thanks. You need to add the Strip­In­vaders Lay­out, add this URL: https://raw.github.com/neophob/StripInvaders/master/OSCGUI/si.js. then add the tar­get which should be Invader.local:10000, press con­nect and you’re done!

    April 17, 2012 at 09:26 Permalink

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