Re: [LUG] Computer Controlled Lighting

[Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm guessing you could modify the sense hat code to make a driver for your own mega version of the sense hat or some of the other offerings that are available.
How 'amazing' and long term is this for? You can get DMX controlled lights that can even be driven by Midi which leaves the option of driving lights from openscore via musescore or possibly audio-> midi converters. You can get matrix arrays of LEDs - or just common anode blocks all of which would be easily controlled from a Pi - you may need a slightly more powerful machine to drive it but there's a million things to plagiarise from.
Viva open source!
Oh - careful when driving leds 'digitally' - you can reset every TV in the street and consider epileptics!
Tom te tom te tom

On 28/08/17 12:39, Richard Brown wrote:

Thanks for that Tom. It is surprisingly easy to use, but I would need multiple Pis and sense hats to say get the effect of 20 light bulbs?

Rich

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 at 11:29 Tom via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 27/08/17 18:16, Richard Brown wrote:

Hi All

I want to try to do something special for my family. Create a lightshow!

I want to try to get hold of 20 or so lights that I can control from the computer - change colour/turn off etc. I want to build a lightboard rather than have them attached to a ceiling. The idea is to have a piece of music playing and for me to programme the lights so they 'dance' to the music.

Any ideas where I will find a product please?

Thanks

Rich

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https://trinket.io/sense-hat to experiment a bit - the Hat itself is surprisingly luminous (and faster than the emulator) - it is after all 192 LEDs which is a a lot of pocket torches!

Tom te tom te tom

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