Circle Of Light

WTF

Juli, pwnschlager, wirehead and I are going to build an LED project for Die Schmiede. We use that page to organize the project.

What we need

What?	Who?	Cost	Status
1000 WS2811 LEDs	amir & pwnschlager	138$	Order pending
(Guess) 4 x PC power supplies	?	?	Aren't there some at the lab?
Oscilloscope	?	?	?
Multimeter	?	?	?
Solder iron, solder, short cables	?	?	?
Long cables	amir	0$	I have a large box full of 1m audio cables
Microcontroller	?	?	?
Yet undetermined electronic parts (like Mosfets)	?	?	?
Laptop	amir	0$	We are going to use my laptop
Fog machine?	?	?	?
Bauzaun?	?	?	?
Two Wiimotes	?	?	Maybe we may borrow from the lab

TODO

What?	Who?	Cost	Status
Test the maximum length of a LED-strand (and therefor determine the number of needed power lines)	?	?	?
Program a Wiimote receiver for the laptop (x64-linux).	amir	0$	Already done for another project
Program visuals based on Wiimote input for the laptop	?	?	?
Encode the visuals to midi with a program for the laptop	?	?	?
Build and program a usb to midi transmitter dongle for the laptop. Optionally buy or borrow a midi interface	?	?	?
Build and program midi receiver to LED boards (short ML-boards) for each strand	?	?	?
Solder LED-strands with ML-boards	?	?	?
Solder power lines from power supplies to LED-strands	?	?	?