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LED-Panels Release status: beta [box doku]
Description	LED-Panels for light shows (hardware + software)
Author(s)	Jorgen,Simon

panels

case

dimension: 50x50 cm

material: aluminium

front: plexi-glass

construction

LED strip alignment ruler

Just a small 3D printed tool, to align the LED strips on a aluminium plate.

• tool to align the first LED strip on the top of the plate:
  

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/0CEUUXRyHWJ

• tool to align all other LED strips on bottom of strip before:
  

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/d53KsC6NblQ

LEDs

• LED strips
  • 60 LEDs / meter
  • 30x30 LEDs / panel
  • 15 meter / panel
• ICs
  • WS2811 or similar once...
  • LED-Pixel
  • WS2812 or WS2812b (full color LED + WS2811 IC)
• shop
  • some links to alibaba or aliexpress
  • current LED strips bulk order

controller

• teensy (3.0 or 3.1)
• fadecandy - other shop (boards based on teensy)

power supply

• 1.8 to 2.0 amps for 1 meter LED strips full white

software

first try

first experiments are done with simple light library to control LED strips by Raspberry Pi and build a demo mobile app to detect sound meter and blinken the LEDs by sound.

light library

first experimental library to control LED strips with WS2801 ICs by PWM.

source: node-rpi-ws2801

sound library

t.b.d.

prototype panel with 15x15 LEDs

first test panel is ready and working great:

vimeo.com/96946850 (video to demonstrate simple fft animation)

youtube.com/watch?v=qX4LsaF1CHE (video of scroll fire animation)

prototype panel with 30x30 LEDs

the second panel is working now and is really bright!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpUF0avA8nQ&list=PLFsMkHa76LAIa-mNUPX0b6K-aYrg49W0_ (example videos on youtube playlist)

• 15m of WS2812b LED strips with 60 LEDs / m
• 2 fadecandy boards (synced by software)
• everything mount on one 50x50 cm aluminium plate
• on front one 50x50 cm plexiglas plate to diffuse the light
• 1 300 Watt (5V 60A) power supply (needed for full bright = 218 Watt)

examples

• OctoWS2811 Library
• fadecandy
• FastLED

new software

t.b.d.