Event

Learn how to program LED strips.

It's super easy and fun to make your life trippy and beautiful.

For total beginners -- no knowledge needed at all.

LED strips have become really inexpensive. Hackers have created many easy methods for controlling them to make patterns and colors. In this workshop you will learn an easy way to control LED strips and make them do what you want. We will make use a very inexpensive Arduino clone. I'll show you 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.

This workshop is for total beginners.

Workshop Itinerary:

• Intro to Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LEDs
• Brief intro to Arduino
• How to use an Arduino to control an LED strip
• Some demos of programs you can download

For ages 10 - 100.

Materials Cost: €20

Workshop leader: Mitch

What to bring: (nothing needed!)

Where: Hardware Hacking Area

More Info: https://wiki.milliways.info/index.php?title=LED_Strips_Everywhere

DECT: 2676 (CORN)