All the led modules mounted, strung together and attached to a raspberry pi…
And with diffusing paper installed:
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Icosahedron, part 3
Icosahedron, part 2
Making and mounting the LED modules
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icosahedron
What are we going to do with the pi? I like to make stuff with led’s, and have some ws2812 I got cheaply from ebay.
Leds are lightweight, and making a ball from paper/cardboard can work well for diffusion and separating the individual led’s.
getting started
just got a raspberry pi to play with. Nothing special, just a regular b+.
I do not plan to use it as a regular computer, just interface it to some lights and hide it. And for that, I need to set it up headless, without a screen/keyboard/mouse. I also need wireless network, to avoid a long network cable.
A headless setup takes a little bit of effort. Here are the steps I used to set it up using my macbook. Continue reading getting started