LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop

This workshop will be given:
Day 3: Friday, 29-December, 23:00 - 24:30
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

Mitch Altman.

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 24:30, 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)!