Pulsating Fiber Optic Jellyfish – Made with NeoPixels + Arduino
Thanks to forums user kerlin for sending this in! They write,
This was mounted on an eight foot pole at a regional burning man event in the midwest.
It’s currently on “autopilot” running my own visualization code via the FastLed library because I had problems with the bass continuously chattering when I tried to steal code from the Piccolo project to make it sound reactive. 🙂
64 strands of 3mm side lit fiber optic cable from here wiedamark.com/fiberopticsolidcoresideglow.aspx
Eink, E-paper, Think Ink – Collin shares six segments pondering the unusual low-power display technology that somehow still seems a bit sci-fi – http://adafruit.com/thinkink
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