DIY Ambient Lighting

bobo1on1 Wrote:Guess who developed boblight

well from that i'll guess you did! If so thanks for a good program

And indeed I saw it on lifehacker aswell as a few other sites.

Amazing stuff

So... any details about this? how many LED strips did you use? What kind did you use and where did they come from? I would like to do this behind a 46" tv just not sure how many LED strips I would need or if I can even do multiple Strips..

Any information or a DIY on this would be great..

technocoma Wrote:I'm sure I can put together some sort of guide. I'm out this morning I will try to do it this afternoon

Thanks, I would also appreciate a noob-proof guide for the arduino-setup.
bob made a really nice tool.
Btw, which OS are you using, Is there a differerence if we use windows ?

bobo1on1 Wrote:Guess who developed boblight

Is he still working on integrating it natively into XBMC?

I'm still holding out getting my Philips amBX to work on my ATV1 with Crystalbuntu.

I will try to right up a guide soon as I get a chance, bit busier than I thought I would be atm.

I'm using windows (to the person that asked about it)

The LED strips for my 37" it was 2M total LED strips and yes you can use multi strips (I use 4) its only way to get the colours to change at different places on screen.

This is awesome. I found a not-so-easy to read tutorial here:

http://siliconrepublic.blogspot.com/2011...hting.html

I don't understand how to make the lighting move around though. Any proper tutorials would be appreciated

EDIT: A non-DIY pricey alternative:
http://gamesharkstore.ca/viewItem.asp?id...tegory=262

Kn0wn1 Wrote:This is awesome. I found a not-so-easy to read tutorial here:

http://siliconrepublic.blogspot.com/2011...hting.html

I don't understand how to make the lighting move around though. Any proper tutorials would be appreciated

the basic idea is that you're sampling multiple areas of the screen, and sending the values to the arduino as multiple channels, which uses 3x PWM pins on the arduino for each area you want to sample (RGB).

So with a standard arduino you get 6 PWM pins = 2 independent RGB channels. You can scan and send 2 areas of the screen to the arduino which powers two sets of lights with different values (left and right side of the screen, for example)

With an arduino mega you get 12PWM pins = 4 RGB channels so you can sample 4 areas of the screen (4 quandrants, for example)

I'm just setting up something similar using the Atmolight hardware (atmolight.de) which is a 4 channel LED controller (there is also a 8 channel version available from the same guy). At the moment it is working with my Vu+ Duo satellite receiver and the effect is just awesome!

All in all I paid about 90,-€ for the whole setup including about 3m of 60 LEDs/m RGB stripes for my 42" Panasonic plasma tv and it was well worth the money. You can find a short clip of my setup on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl9SFWxCS5w&sns=em.

guwu Wrote:I'm just setting up something similar using the Atmolight hardware (atmolight.de) which is a 4 channel LED controller (there is also a 8 channel version available from the same guy). At the moment it is working with my Vu+ Duo satellite receiver and the effect is just awesome!

All in all I paid about 90,-€ for the whole setup including about 3m of 60 LEDs/m RGB stripes for my 42" Panasonic plasma tv and it was well worth the money. You can find a short clip of my setup on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl9SFWxCS5w&sns=em.

I love the look, but it seems like the top and sides are always blue/purple, and the bottom is always red/purple. Maybe its just the cam, or that segment of video?