07-12, 22:30–00:00 (US/Eastern), Tobin 219 (Hardware Workshop)
Learn how to light up LED strips with a cheap Arduino and make your life trippy and beautiful! For total beginners - no knowledge needed at all. LED strips have become really inexpensive. People have created many way-cool methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips using open-source tools to make them do what you want. You will use a very cheap Arduino clone, and will learn everything you need to know to use existing programs - as-is or to hack on - to control the colors in your world with LED strips.
Mitch Altman is an international hacker, inventor, entrepreneur, author, mentor, best known for starting Noisebridge hackerspace and inventing TV-B-Gone, which turns off TVs in public places. He did pioneering work in virtual reality in the mid 1980s and was co-founder of 3ware, a successful SillyValley startup in the 1990s. He has visited hundreds of hackerspaces around the world. He mentors, teaches soldering, and promotes open hardware and community wherever he goes. mastodon
