visualSound
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Hey everyone, first project that reached a music festival, featuring a geometric steel structure with led tubes attached to it.
The entire thing was pixel mapped using a 3d model of the arch and Touch designer and a Brix mini computer for size in a 3d printed enclosure that repelled rain and unwanted elements while allowing plenty of airflow.
The minicomputer used serial/usb to communicate with a teensy 3.1 which acted as a buffer between touch designer and the led's and used the octows2811 library and adapter board as well.
I put this together in 8 days and setup the computer to start when it received ac power for a fully automated, animation cycling, install that required no user input through its use.
Check out this short but high quality video of the arch in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuigvRG6CGU
and this one featuring more of a breakdown of the process of building it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-a8ufBulb0
and a blog post with even more info here:
http://www.enviral-design.com/euphoria-main-archway-lighting-project/
also - the hat in the background of the last image is an earlier project of mine that uses the the teensy 3.1 and the octo library as well - more here:
http://www.enviral-design.com/704-leds-the-all-seeing-eye-rgb-led-abstract-top-hat/

The entire thing was pixel mapped using a 3d model of the arch and Touch designer and a Brix mini computer for size in a 3d printed enclosure that repelled rain and unwanted elements while allowing plenty of airflow.


The minicomputer used serial/usb to communicate with a teensy 3.1 which acted as a buffer between touch designer and the led's and used the octows2811 library and adapter board as well.
I put this together in 8 days and setup the computer to start when it received ac power for a fully automated, animation cycling, install that required no user input through its use.
Check out this short but high quality video of the arch in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuigvRG6CGU
and this one featuring more of a breakdown of the process of building it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-a8ufBulb0
and a blog post with even more info here:
http://www.enviral-design.com/euphoria-main-archway-lighting-project/
also - the hat in the background of the last image is an earlier project of mine that uses the the teensy 3.1 and the octo library as well - more here:
http://www.enviral-design.com/704-leds-the-all-seeing-eye-rgb-led-abstract-top-hat/