Nasa Style Circadian Lighting – The Wrap Up #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Here’s the wrap up of this Raspberry Pi version of very expensive NASA Style circadian lighting — featuring our Flat Digital RGB LED Pixel strands at Rasathus’ Raspberry Ramblings:

Well, it took a little longer than I had hoped; and took a couple more re-writes than I would have liked before I was happy with it.  But its finally here.

For those of you that didn’t manage to catch the first part of this article, including the building of the hardware; it can be found over here

But picking up where we left off.  As a bit of a fan of minimalist white rooms, I’ve always loved the Phillips Living Colours system, as a way of applying a mood to a room.  So from the moment I bought a set of Adafruit RGB Leds several months back, I always had the intention of putting them to use in this way.

Having always been interested in the process and psychology of sleep, and anything capable of making its way into space; the article by the BBC discussing Nasa’s commissioning of a new lighting system for the ISS had piqued my interest.  So here we go, back to our attempt to replace incredibly expensive space hardware with cheap off the shelf components; although I’m sure Nasa’s approach would be somewhat more subtle….

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