Wednesday, October 9, 2013

One LED Strip potential use

We're so close to going live with the Kickstarter! A few last minute items and we'll be able to set the Kickstarter site live. Stick with us and we'll let you know when!

One thing we want to show you are the potential uses for our boards. One thing we tested while doing early development is using individually addressable RGB LED strips. What that means is each LED on a strip can be a different color. There are many LED strips out there that only have all the LEDs one color at at a time, which can still be used with our boards, but we wanted to test the ease of use of the individually addressable LED strips.

The effects that can be created with individually addressable RGB LED strips is also very exciting. There are so many color choices available to play with and the patterns are a lot of fun. It was a good experience to play with the pretty colors to make something exciting! I will admit that once the strip had the color pattern desired, a lot of time was spent just looking at the lights change colors.

Driver and Transmitter Boards with RGB LED strip
The pattern the strip is showing, is the Red-Green-Blue Spectrum. It was designed to flow the colors through the strip. It looked like a rainbow shifting and wrapping around the ends. There are some video segments of it actually shifting through the colors in our Kickstarter video, so make sure to check that out once we go live to see the full effect!

So, this is one potential use for our project. You could have a light up belt, headband, table lighting, etc. using the LED strips. If you ever have any questions for us (about anything!) please leave a comment here on our blog or write on our Facebook page. We'd love to get some feedback and know what our supporters are interested in hearing from us!

1 comment:

  1. Looking good! Potential for safety vests or other high visibility attire for bicyclists, runners and even walkers. Depending on your LED array size you could even create text or graphical messages... in a fairly flexible media.

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