Arduino LED Light Show Projects from ASIMOWALK5 #ArduinoD14

Matthew W shared a number of Arduino Light Show stages and projects in the Adafruit Google+ Community, documenting his exploration with this type of activity on
his blog here. The video above was one of the last ones he created with his first adhoc stage as it was starting to show signs of age (according to him, at least), and checkout the videos below for videos from his second and third stages as well.

From his Arduino LED Light Show FAQ:

Q. What went into building the show?

Talking about the latest show, there were a few key elements. It all started with two lines of breadboarded LEDs. The towers were constructed using cardboard and tissue paper to diffuse the RGB LED light in each tower. The “spotlights” were three servo motors with an RGB LED taped onto each servo horn. Behind the scenes was an Arduino Mega 2560 (compatible) along with three mini-breadboards to distribute power and to setup the resistors for some of the LEDs. Half of the wiring was 22AWG solid-core wire, the other half were female-to-male jumper wires.

Q. Inspirations?

World of Color at Disney California Adventure started it all. Canada’s Wonderland, my home park, upgraded their fountains over the past couple of years so that has also helped inspire me to continue. I also ran a short-lived (like they all are) website called More Than Starlight that was a blog and database for fountain and light shows. I discovered many amazing shows across the world which helped build up to my first light show.

Those are pretty much all that’s been asked and worth noting… At least I have a post to reference if it’s needed….

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