LED Strips Everywhere
LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop
This workshop will be given:
Day 3: Friday, 29-December, 23:00 - 24:30am
NOTE: You do NOT need to register to take this workshop -- please show up early to ensure a seat at the Hardware Hacking Area.
Abstract
Learn how to program LED strips.
It's super easy and fun to make your life trippy and beautiful.
For total beginners.
Learn how to light up LED strips with a cheap Arduino, and make your life trippy and beautiful! For total beginners -- no knowledge needed at all. LED strips have become really inexpensive. Lots of people have created inexpensive methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips, to make them do what you want. We will use a very cheap Arduino clone. I'll show you everything you need to know to use existing programs -- as-is, or to hack on -- to control the colors in your world with LED strips.
Presenter
Full Description
LED strips have become really inexpensive. Lots of people have created inexpensive methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips, to make them do what you want. We will use a very cheap Arduino clone. I'll show you everything you need to know to use existing programs -- as-is, or to hack on -- to control the colors in your world with LED strips.
Workshop Itinerary
- Intro to Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LEDs
- Brief intro to Arduino
- How to use an Arduino to control an LED strip
- Some demos of programs you can download
Registration -- NOT required
You do not need to register in advance to take this workshop -- just show up early to ensure a seat.:
Software
OPTIONAL: bring a laptop if you want it set up for programming LED strips.
If you bring a laptop, please download the free and open source Arduino software before the workshop -- Windows, Linux, or MacOS are all fine!:
Arduino software
Summary
What: Learn to program LED strips and make your life trippy
When: 23:00 to 24:30pm, Day 3 (Friday, December 29th)
Where: Hardware Hacking Area (see Map, below)
Who: Anyone and everyone can learn to program LED strips. Ages 10 to 100
Max #: 50 participants -- This workshop will fill up, so please do arrive early!
Cost: €20 for materials
Instructor: Mitch Altman
website: LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone!
Buy a kit to guarantee a seat, or come by early! (And please do arrive early, regardless!)
Optional: Bring your laptop if you want to go home with the free Arduino software installed on it.
Arduino software runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Links
More info about the LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop
Ardiuno website
Map
The location of the Hardware Hacking Area in CCH will be known "soon"(TM)!