LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop

This workshop will be given:
Friday, 31-May, 10:00pm - 11:30pm

Abstract

Learn how to program LED strips.
It's super easy and fun to make your life trippy and beautiful.
For total beginners.

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. Lots of people have created inexpensive methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips, to make them do what you want. We will use a very cheap 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.

     What: Learn to use and program LED strips to make your life colorful and beautiful
     When: May 31st, Friday, 10:00pm - 11:30pm -- Please arrive early to purchase materials so that we can start on time
     Where: Hardware Hacking Village (Workshop 6 tent -- see Map, below)
     Who: Anyone and everyone can have fun learning to program and use LED strips. Ages 10 to 100
     Max #: 40 participants
     Cost: £20 for materials -- includes everything you need!

Instructor: Mitch Altman

website: LED Strips Everywhere For Everyone

Registration

Register on the EMF system to secure a spot, or come by early to be on the waiting list. (And please do arrive early, regardless!)
To register: Go to the LED Strips Everywhere For Everyone! entry on the EMF schedule, and click on the "Enter Lottery" button.
NOTE: There will be a spots available for the workshop 30-minutes before the workshop starting time. Please arrive early to secure a spot.

Full Description

LED strips have become really inexpensive. Lots of people have created inexpensive methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips, to make them do what you want. We will use a very cheap 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.

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

Software

OPTIONAL: bring a laptop if you want it set up for programming LED strips.
If you bring a laptop, please download the free and open source Arduino software before the workshop -- Windows, Linux, or MacOS are all fine!:
Arduino software

Links

More info about the LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! workshop
Ardiuno website

Contact

Mitch Altman: <mitch AT CornfieldElectronics DOT com>
DECT: 4273 (HARD)