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Leds Hacks |
 | How to Make Giant, Illuminated Balloon Art
Here's a superb way to get a message across: This giant Super Mario "sculpture" is made up of hundreds of LED Floaties (Helium + LEDs + Balloons). Of course, the idea can be altered to fit any graphic or message - All you need is a grid for... |
 | Full LED Snowboarding Suit
Nighttime in the French Alps means the mountains are pitch black and the temperature is a frosty -13°F. The perfect time of day to go snowboarding, right? One filmmaker thought so, and created the suit above featuring thousands of white LEDs.... |
 | Psychedelic Sphere of LEDs
The friend of a performer created this optical light display of 256 LEDs that can be programmed to create some fascinating displays. The ball has 16 panels, which are not only the circuit boards, but the structural support of the ball as well.... |
 | Superb DIY Interactive Dance Floor
Learn how to build a custom interactive dance floor measureing 13x8 feet and containing 160 RGB LED illuminated squares. The project features eight microcontrollers which manage the LEDs, eight weight sensors, and an FPGA. The pressboard base... |
 | Glowing LED Desk Alerts you of Emails, IMs
IKEA desks are DIY-er favorites. Take this IKEA Gallant desk for instance. The desk comes with a frosted class top, and where there's frosted glass, cool LED effects are not far behind. The desk monitors HTTP requests and illuminates LEDs when a... |
 | DIY Ambilight Clone: Livelight
This clone of the Phillips Ambilight system allows you to enhance your video watching experience. It is neat, compact,polished, and gets the job done. All the components fit into a attractively milled and labeled project box that allows for... |
 | The 4 Player LED Pong Coffee Table
Previously, we've featured a variety of Pong projects including the LED Pong clock. Now the 2D arcade game gets new life by adding two more players and being built into a coffee table. The coffee table holds 900 LED's arranged in a 30 x 30 matrix... |
 | How to: Wifi Signal Strength Light Painting
Wireless networks are everywhere these days, creating invisible layers that we cannot see. This unique light painting project seeks to change that by mapping the signal strength of Wifi networks in a variety of environments. The light painting... |
 | DIY LED Matrix Pong Clock
Don't Miss: Dirt Cheap, Epic DIY Pong Clock
This neat LED clock mimics the display of the Pong video game to show the time as two paddles play back and forth. The game plays on automatically and updates the time by scoring a point. It also... |
 | Hack the Kinect to Control DJ Lasers & Lighting
This project allows a DJ to literally wave their hands over the crowd to "conduct" a laser light show. The setup uses an Xbox 360 Kinect which sends data to a computer which, in turn, sends commands via serial to a DMX lighting control... |
