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 | 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... |
 | Create Animated GIF Shows on a LED Matrix Display
Here’s another LED matrix project from the same guy who showed us how to stream webcam video on a LED matrix. Creating cool animated GIFs using a matrix of LEDs sounds more common. He picked up a few types of LED matrices: a 32x16 RGB LED matrix... |
 | Tron Lightcycle PC Case Mod
The nearest we have come to a Tron lightcycle thus far is the Segway with the blue-neon TRON effect. This custom TRON Lightcycle PC was built from scratch using laser cut Acrylic sheets and illuminated with a large number of neon blue light strips.... |
 | DIY LED Glass Wall
BlinkM is a smart LED that displays various shades of light effects by fading or changing color. You can buy them for about $15, but this DIYer assembled his own for about $4 to build an LED wall.
The result is this 11x11 matrix of light to an I2C... |
 | Incredible Light Painting with an Arduino
Long exposure shots can create some pretty interesting effects. Light painting takes this idea and morphs it into innovative examples of ‘illuminated’ art. If you experiment with different light sources and treat them as ‘brushes’, the... |
 | Tiny DIY Persistence of Vision Project
Persistence of Vision (POV) devices display a message when you wave them through the air. We've seen a few POV projects in the past, but none quite this small. Switch off the lights and wave the device around and see the message displayed. The... |
 | Stream Webcam Video to an LED Matrix
We've seen some projects in the past which display patterns or games on an LED matrix, but they're not nearly as complex as this project. Using a webcam, a video stream is processed via MatLab for edge detection and the results are displayed... |
 | 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... |
 | DIY Nixie Tube Keychain
Nixie tubes are essentially an old school method of displaying digits before LCDs. They're primarily famous for being used in Soviet Russia but are now a favorite among the DIY community. Most people use them to make clocks, but occasionally... |
 | 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... |
