Completed Project : 704 Led Top Hat + teensy 3.1 + Octows811 library

[visualSound]

Been working on an led hat to take with me to a few music fests this summer, and this is it! Video doesn't do the colors justice, as always the neopixels are way to bright


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-OsEh8kgCw


I documented a bit of the process of building it here:
http://www.enviral-design.com/704-leds-the-all-seeing-eye-rgb-led-abstract-top-hat/
Not super in depth but may have some helpful info for anyone working with the 144/meter strips.


comments and critiques welcome, I think this is the first legitimate project i've finished that might stand up to the test of time.

 

[nlecaude]

Very nice !
All the patterns arr programmed directly on the Teensy ?

 

[visualSound]

Thank You!

The eye graphics I created in photoshop, and used some python code in another app to convert it to an RGB image array which I copy pasted into the arduino code. All the animation is procedural though, the pupil is on it's own layer so to speak and randomly offsets every so often, blinking is basically a swap to another graphic / array then back again. Everything is loaded from the sketch as code though, no sd card or external storage with the teensy.

the 2nd and 4th are fully code/procedural using a cosine lookup table for fast calculations and the third one is a blend of the two.