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Taking LED light painting to new heights

jeremy-weatherfordJeremy Weatherford 06/20/2015 at 01:470 Comments

Initial commit... this project has been in the works for far too long, but I'm finally getting ready to put the pieces together. Tested so far: plane works with the wing on the bottom, for best visibility of the LED strips. Teensy is reading BMP files from the SD card and displaying them on the LED strip.

Next steps: hook up the receiver and read the two toggle switches, mount the whole thing on the plane, figure out how I'm going to do the photography side.

Bells and whistles: add some input other than the buttons for configuring timing, etc. while on the ground. I have a little OLED screen that would be perfect for a menu system, along with a 5-way joystick, or maybe try interfacing a Wii Nunchuck for a detachable ground-based input device.

YouTube video of the prototype here:

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