Introduction The Lumenati line of LED boards is designed to give your projects an edge in their lighting capacity. Based on the APA102C addressable LED, these LEDs employ a 2-wire communication protocol consisting of a clock line and a data line. While this requires one more wire than standard WS2812B addressable LEDs, the advantage is that the communication …
The speed of light in vacuum is a well-known universal constant and is considered to be the nature’s ultimate speed limit. No matter, energy, and information can travel faster than this speed. The speed of light has always been a topic of great interest and significance throughout history. In the course of measuring the speed …
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In this Instructable, we’re going to build a very modern take on an iconic piece of studio equipment: a smart on-air warning light that responds to the Robin room reservation system. This project started life as a practical solution to our occasional need for quiet in a busy office of creatives while recording Uncorked Studio’s …
In this Raspberry Pi light sensor tutorial I show you how to correctly connect the photo resistor sensor up to the GPIO pins. Lastly I show you how it can be used in a simple python script so you’re able to gather and use the data from it. This is yet another sensor that I …
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Create your first connected light using Raspberry Pi. Control and monitor a connected light from mobile, tablet and desktop using Lelylan & MQTT. It takes 15 minutes | $36 (eth) or $44 (WiFi) in hardware | basic level. Step 1: Hardware For this tutorial you need a Raspberry Pi connected to the Internet, either via …
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I’m continuing to build out “beakn” my DIY Lync Status light. This is what I’m calling a “maker experience” project. I want to know what a maker goes through to build things so I’m building it with as many different platforms as possible. I’ve built it with Arduino and Netduino. Version 0.1 brought us a …
beakn v0.3 : DIY Lync Status Light with a RaspberryPi, .NET, Mono and MQTT Continue Reading
CSTATION 4x4x4 Light Cube kit uses 64 cuboid LED,and controlled by Arduino. Expansion board uses two 74HC595 shift register chips, using eight I/Os can light the 4x4x4 Light Cube,it’s hardware resources needed is less than other 4x4x4 light cubic expansion board(needs 20 I/Os to control). 1.Circuit Description The display part of ICSTATION 4x4x4 Light Cube …
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This project involves using a Raspberry Pi to drive 8 AC outlets which are connected to Christmas Tree light sets. The AC lights are simple one color strands of lights, but to give a more dynamic range to the light show there is also a 25 programmable RGB LED star. One of the benefits of …
At LightFair, LED Engin will demonstrate a 2200 lm light engine that has halogen-style dimming from 1,600K to 3,000K as well as colour temperature (CCT) tuning between 2,100K and 4,300K. Called LuxiTune Generation 3.0 and aimed at replacing 120W halogen lamps, “both tuning curves track the black body curve closely and light intensity [flux] is …
Lightfair: Temp-tuneable LED light engine dims to 0.5% Continue Reading
The basic idea of this project is to convert a $3-4 solar light found at Lowes and Home Depot hardware store (here in the US) into a wireless remote sensor node. The node will utilize an MSP430G2553 MCU and a nRF24L01+(w/ spirilis library) wireless module to send light intensity (photoresitor that came with solar driveway …
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