This Guide shows you, how to assemble/connect the StripInvaders System. You need: WS2801 LED Strips An Arduino Ethernet Board and a USB/Serial Light Adapter to upload the firmware 5 Volt power supply – I use an old ATX Power supply Optional: Grove - ...Read More
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. ...Read More
I just got a new Arduino Ethernet board and had some troubles uploading the Firmware. After some research I finally found a solution using my BusPirate v3: Here is the wiring between BusPirate and Arduino Ethernet BP GND -> Pin 1 (Black) BP ...Read More
PixelController is a real time video/VJ generator and mixer software. Most of the Visuals are generated and mixed in realtime and respond to the environment. I use PixelController to control my PixelInvaders Panels. PixelController supports well-known industry and OpenSource standards, such ...Read More
After several month of working on my PixelInvaders 3D RGB Panels I finally reached my goal: a huge and easy to assemble RGB LED Panel. Besides the hardware, the control software was a big task. I created PixelController, a modular software ...Read More
LPD6803 Tutorial, Part 2: Simple VU Meter">
Make sure you read Part 1 of this tutorial. In this tutorial we use a strand of 20 LPD6803 RGB LED as huge VU Meter. Processing will send serial data to the Arduino which will display it. The source can be ...Read More
LPD6803 (Intelligent RGB Pixel Module) Tutorial, Part 1: Basics">
An LPD6803 based LED module is an "intelligent" pixel, it can memorize its color and passthrough the data and power connection. This means you can drive a lot (several thousand) intelligent pixels with just 4 cables (2x power and 2x ...Read More
This is another rxtx library release based on my previous release. This new version improves the "serial event callback function" and thus reduce the library latency enormous - for more information read THIS article. So whats the use of this updated ...Read More
Paul Stoffregen was kind enough to send my a free Teensy 2.0 sample board to analyze the Arduino serial latency issue - and this board is shocking small: We wrote a very simple firmware to perform some basic benchmarks - Paul ...Read More
I use Processing to control my Arduino - an easy and working solution. However if you need to send alot data to the Arduino, you'll notice a 20ms delay between sending (120 bytes) and receieving (16 bytes) a serial message. ...Read More
Here are some examples what you can do with the neorainbowduino rainbowduino firmware. Led Table by Sebastian Beyer: [vimeo]19539636[/vimeo] Seeeduino Carnival entry by Janos Siklosi (ranked 3rd) [youtube]MaQrkwwHCzw[/youtube] [youtube]Z0DRaHUf_ZA[/youtube] Some images by Fabius Steinberger: Thanks for your messages guys! Read More
