Color ball – babies love LEDs

Here’s two tiny engineers-in-training (nice Ada Lovelace onesie!) playing with a color ball containing an Arduino, our RGB LED tape, and some other fun stuff. Full specs in the YouTube description… via Facebook

Filed under: arduino,components & parts,leds-lcds — by Becky Stern, posted March 12, 2012 at 2:47 pm

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1 Comment

  1. Thanks for the link :)

    It’s really simple, but the source code is here if anyone wants it (public domained):
    http://pastebin.com/nuncvgpJ

    It’s just mapping a clamped X accelerometer value to hue, then buffering to prevent it from being too squirrely.

    Also fixed the encoding: http://youtu.be/v5wv_bU2MCM

    Comment by devellison — March 13, 2012 @ 6:41 am

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