September 6, 2013 AT 5:15 pm
Making A PiGlow Remote @Raspberry_Pi #piday #raspberrypi
Philip Howard‘s remote controlled PiGlow lamp:
The PiGlow neatly circumvents the current expense and supply problems with RGB LEDs, its 18 LEDs are discrete colours, fanning out from a central point in 3 spokes of white, blue, green, yellow orange and red triplets. Because the PiGlow has Red, Blue and Green LEDs it’s capable of producing a whole range of colours when combined with a suitable diffuser. I decided to repurpose a table-top, spherical glass lamp, which we’d been wanting to put an RGB LED bulb in for quite some time. If you want to achieve similar results, it’s the FADO mouth blown glass lamp from Ikea it’s a perfect enclosure for an RGB lighting project, and fits a Pi easily.
Featured Adafruit Products
Pimoroni PiGlow – Get visual feedback from your Pi! The PiGlow is a small add on board for the Raspberry Pi that provides 18 individually controllable LEDs. You can use it for all sorts of things! And of course, it fits inside a Pibow! (read more)
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit, be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Have you tried the new “Adafruit Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro”? It’s our tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry Pi. But wait, there’s more! Try our new Raspberry Pi WebIDE! The easiest way to learn programming on a Raspberry Pi.
We now have Raspberry Pi Model B with 512MB RAM in stock and shipping now!
Check out all the Circuit Playground Episodes! Our new kid’s show and subscribe!
Have an amazing project to share? Join the SHOW-AND-TELL every Wednesday night at 7:30pm ET on Google+ Hangouts.
Join us every Wednesday night at 8pm ET for Ask an Engineer!
Learn resistor values with Mho’s Resistance or get the best electronics calculator for engineers “Circuit Playground” – Adafruit’s Apps!
Maker Business — Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs
Wearables — Hot glue free zone
Electronics — Have you met Charlie?
Biohacking — Ticks are Spreading an Allergy to Meat
No Comments
No comments yet.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.