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Category Archives: rgb
Fail of the Week: Bright Idea for LED Signs Goes Bad
Typically when we select a project for “Fail to the Week” honors, it’s because something went wrong with the technology of the project. But the tech of [Leo Fernekes]’ innovative LED sign system was never the problem; it was the realities of scaling up to production as well as the …read more
Posted in animation, ASIC, design for manufacture, Fail of the Week, fotw, invention, led, patent, rgb, scaling, sign
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Adding RGB To A CRT
There was a time when all TVs came with only an antenna socket on their backs, and bringing any form of video input to them meant dicing with live-chassis power supplies. Then sets with switch-mode supplies made delving into a CRT TV much safer, and we could bodge in composite …read more
Posted in crt, rgb, tv, video hacks
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This RGB Tree Has its Roots in a PCB
[Paczkaexpress]’s RGB tree is a mix of clever building techniques and artistic form that come together into quite a beautiful sculpture.
The branches of his tree are made from strands of enameled copper wire capped with an RGB LED and terminated in a female header. The separate wires are all …read more
Posted in 2019 Hackaday Prize, led, led hacks, rgb, stm32, The Hackaday Prize, tree
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A Farewell To YouTube Sub Counters Set To Break With API Change
Of all the things you never would have guessed you’d need just ten years ago, a YouTube subscriber counter would probably rank highly. You would have guessed that the little hits of dopamine accompanying each tick upward of a number would be so addictive?
As it turns out, lots of …read more
Posted in api, arduino, counter, ESP8266, google hacks, led, matrix, rgb, subscribers, youtube
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Teardown: AppLights Personalized Projection
Listen, it hurts to hear, but somebody needs to say it. It’s over, OK? You’ve got to admit it and move on. Sure, you could get away with it for a week or two in January, but now it’s just getting weird. No matter how hard you fight it, the …read more
Posted in bluetooth, christmas lights, Holiday Hacks, home depot, i2c, led, led hacks, logic analyzer, projector, rgb, teardown, TTC2541
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LEDs and Pi Let You Virtually Decorate This Online Christmas Tree
Anyone who has decorated a Christmas tree knows that the lights are what really make the look. But no matter how many strings you wrap around it, there never seems to be enough. Plus the standard sets either sit there and do nothing, or just blink on and off at regular intervals. Yawn.
But hackers aim higher, and [leo.currie]’s interactive “paintable” Christmas tree takes the lighting game a step beyond. The standard light strings are replaced with strings of WS2811 RGB LEDs which are wired to an ESP8266. A camera connected to a Raspberry Pi is setup up to stream …read more
Posted in christmas, christmas tree, ESP8266, Holiday Hacks, led, PiCam, python, Raspberry Pi, rgb, ws2811
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Code Review Lamp Subtly Reminds You To Help Your Fellow Developer
[Dimitris Platis] works in an environment with a peer review process for accepting code changes. Code reviews generally are a good thing. One downside though, is that a lack of responsiveness from other developers can result in a big hit to team’s development speed. It isn’t that other developers are unwilling to do the reviews, it’s more that individuals are often absorbed in their own work and notification emails are easily missed. There is also a bit of a “tragedy of the commons” vibe to the situation, where it’s easy to feel that someone else will surely attend to the …read more
Posted in 3d printed, code review, ESP8266, led hacks, led ring, neopixel, notification, rgb, Software Development, usb, Wemos d1, wemos d1 mini
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Circuit Bending A TV For Better Input
If you haven’t noticed, CRTs are getting hard to find. You can’t get them in Goodwill, because thrift stores don’t take giant tube TVs anymore. You can’t find them on the curb set out for the trash man, because they won’t pick them up. It’s hard to find them on eBay, because no one wants to ship them. That’s a shame, because the best way to enjoy old retrocomputers and game systems is with a CRT with RGB input. If you don’t already have one, the best you can hope for is an old CRT with a composite input.
But …read more
Posted in crt, retro, retrocomputing, rgb, tv, video hacks
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Unphotogenic Lighting As A Feature
Have you ever taken a picture indoors and had unsightly black bars interrupt your otherwise gorgeous photo? They are caused by lighting which flickers in and out in its normal operation. Some people can sense it easier than others without a camera. The inconsistent light goes out so briefly that we usually cannot perceive it but run-of-the-mill camera phones scan rows of pixels in sequence, and if there are no photons to detect while some rows are scanned, those black bars are the result. Annoying, right?
What if someone dressed that bug of light up as a feature? Instead of …read more
Posted in flicker, inconvenient, led, leds, lighting, Lishield, phone hacks, photography, Portable Video Hacks, privacy, rgb, Unphotogenic, video hacks, wreck
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Blinging Buttons for Pick and Place
With 3D-printing, cheap CNC machines, and the huge variety of hardware available these days, really slick-looking control panels are getting to be commonplace. We’re especially fond of those nice indicators with the chrome bezels, and the matching pushbuttons with LED backlighting; those can really make a statement on a panel.
Sadly for [Proto G], though, the LEDs in his indicator of choice were just boring old one-color units, so he swapped them out and made these addressable RGB indicators. The stock lamps are not cheap units, but they do have a certain look, and they’re big enough to allow room …read more
Posted in control panel, indicator, led, led hacks, neopixel, pilot, rgb, switch
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