The Christmas season has come and gone, and festive lights are (hopefully) down and saved for his or her subsequent look. Should you’d prefer to step up your recreation for 2023 with animated lights that may show sprites, animations, and anything you’ll be able to consider, then take a look at the Deluxe Sensible Curtain challenge from vcch.
The setup is ingeniously easy, hanging strips of addressable LEDs the place a standard curtain would go on one’s window. As a substitute of blocking gentle, this “curtain” emits shiny photographs within the type of twenty two-meter excessive LED strips. These are managed with an M5Stack IoT improvement platform, which gives each a neighborhood interface, and the power to go browsing wirelessly to switch the show.
On this set up, LED strips are chained collectively, and hung from an higher part of plastic. A second piece of plastic is affixed to the underside of every strip, which acts as a weight, and helps keep away from a multitude when packing it up for the “low season.” Importantly, as the instance makes use of a complete of 1,200 LEDs, an ample 5V energy provide is required, individually related to every strip to keep away from voltage drop alongside the chain.
Code is accessible by way of the challenge’s write-up, plus a number of clips of it in motion. It’s a enjoyable instance, and an idea that’s versatile sufficient (each actually and figuratively) to make use of in all kinds of bodily conditions, doubtlessly with {hardware} that you’ve got on-hand.
