Mark Carline shared this great light painting via twitter:
The above image was taken on Thursday 21st November during a Welshot Chester Academy Evening. The theme this month was “light painting”.
The Welshot logo was actually “painted” with a LED / Raspberry PI open source system that I made using instructions from Adafruits site below:
learn.adafruit.com/light-painting-with-raspberry-pi/
For more information about Welshot see their site:
www.welshotimaging.co.uk
Thanks for the heads up, Mark! If you’re interested in trying this out for yourself, check out the tutorial below from the Adafruit Learning System.
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Light Painting with Raspberry Pi – Light painting is an artistic photographic technique combining long exposure times with lights in motion. Traditionally these images have been hand-painted with a penlight…but more recently, affordable microcontrollers and addressable RGB LEDs have brought a new high-tech twist to the idea. (read more)
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