Musical LEDs

I decided to build something relating to LEDs for the final project in AR3200. The strip will be controlled using an Arduino board, which, in turn will be controller either by Max, or by my cell phone. There is a way to control the board using an Android device as a host – and I have plenty of cables for that. The image below shows my room right now. That strip will be used for the project.

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The image below is the box that I will essentially be replacing using the Arduino.

IR Receiver

The box pictured is a simple IR receiver, used by a usual 52 key remote for these lights. The Arduino board will be interfacing with the computer to respond to music. Using a similar patch for the beat boxing video remix project, the volume, highs and lows will control the colors, as well as the opacity. A preliminary mapping will have volume on opacity, lows on the reds, highs on the blues and something else on the greens. Still have to figure out how. I have found a power supply – the LED one should actually work for the board itself, I just need three TIP31 transistors from the AK department – getting those tomorrow from the ECE shop. Hopefully this will all work…

For a proof of concept, and the inspirational video:

I will not be using the Arduino IDE though for the code since Max PSW will be used for that.

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