I read these DIY posts about hacking every day stuff and sometimes I wonder why no one thought of this sooner!Instructables user WyoJustin has posted an article about making a set of LED brake lights for the ends of the handlebars on a bicycle. It's a fairly simple project using an arduino microcontroller and a 3-axis accelerometer. Clever! Check out the full Instructable here.Thanks Make!
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Jim on Light is written by Jim Hutchison, Chief Design Consultant of Alive Lighting. Jim has several years of experience in the Entertainment Lighting industry. Jim is a member of USA Local 829.
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The Ingravid Festival and Telenoika’s Excellent Video Mapping
October 22nd, 2009 by Jim
Posted in Animations, Architectural Lighting, Digital Light, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting Design, Video, architainment, artists, projection design, video effects
Posted in Animations, Architectural Lighting, Digital Light, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting Design, Video, architainment, artists, projection design, video effects
The Ingravid Festival in Spain saw a ridiculously interesting video mapping project this year - a group of artists called the Telenoika Cultural Association created this amazing composition using openFrameworks, a C++ toolkit that pretty much rules.Just an FYI - the video is pretty long (about 20 minutes), but I promise it will be one of the better 20 minute sessions of your day.Thanks Make, and thanks to Ryan Wilkinson for the heads up on this!Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 from Telenoika on Vimeo.
A DIY Glass Block LED Display
September 8th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in DIY, Digital Light, Display Technology, Electronics, LEDs, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Video, Video Screen Technology
Posted in DIY, Digital Light, Display Technology, Electronics, LEDs, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Video, Video Screen Technology
I love do-it-yourself lighting - every time I read an article about someone who has wired up some LEDs in an interesting configuration with a homemade controller, I just get all giggly and stupid. I'm always sketching diagrams and ideas for luminaires - I am hoping that I am able to take the Luminaire Design course here in the Spring so I can expunge some of these ideas from my melon.I read an article at Make about Dave Vondle's DIY LED display wall - Dave wired up a bunch of LED sources behind a glass block wall on his ... Read More»
Turn Your Ceiling Fan into A Low Res LED Display
August 10th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in DIY, Electronics, Hack It!, Just Plain AWESOME., LEDs, Lighting for Enjoyment!, Video Screen Technology
Posted in DIY, Electronics, Hack It!, Just Plain AWESOME., LEDs, Lighting for Enjoyment!, Video Screen Technology
Instructables user UncleBone posted one of the coolest Instructables I've read on that site - making an LED ceiling fan display! He remade the blades, added some homemade circuit boards, and created the image mapping himself. Good sir, I commend you!Check out a very quick video of his final project - the frame rate's off and makes the product look a bit choppy, but you get the idea. Also, check out the Instructable here!Thanks for the heads up, Make!
Slow Lighting: Go Build Stuff Out of Junk!
Cool! I'm not so hip on calling it "green," per se, but Tinker.It is having a lamp-building-from-junk fest in their London office on April 18. It's only 30 pounds for lunch and materials - which is only 30 pounds for UK folks, but $12,343.37 for people in the United States.Boy I certainly do love that exchange rate joke, don't I? Yikes.About the event: A one day event where you’re invited to make a lamp out of random stuff we’ll have collected at local stores, charity shops, etc. Bring your own materials, bulbs, old lamps, Arduinos, etc. This is a making day, ... Read More»
Our Friend the Resistor
Collin Cunningham has brought yet another great video to the web about electrical components. This time we meet the Resistor - and Collin shows us how to make a dimmer by drawing on a piece of paper with a #2 pencil!
Do You Know What Transistors Do?
Another great video from Collin Cunningham over with Make Magazine - this time Collin talks about transistors - some history, what they do, different types, and a little project using a transistor, some resistors, and an LED.So far, we've seen a video on LEDs and one on capacitors. Collin Cunningham, you're awesome. Can I buy you a beer?
Ten from February 2009
March 6th, 2009 by Jim
Posted in JimOnLight.com
Posted in JimOnLight.com
I just spent the last half-hour combing through February's JimOnLight.com posts. I spent a good portion of the day at WordCamp Denver today, and during one of the sessions I wondered why I wasn't doing this every month. I try to write a lot for the readers, and I try to make sure that every post is quality. It's nice to go back through and remember what I had forgotten from earlier in the month.Here's ten posts that I enjoyed rereading from February - this isn't ranked or anything, they're just all things I enjoyed discovering:The Beacon Installation http://www.jimonlight.com/2009/02/01/the-beacon-installation/A Lamp Robot ... Read More»
The Capacitor
I posted a great video on LEDs a little while back that was posted by Make Mag and starring the brain of Collin Cunningham - Make's released another video, this time on what capacitors do, and from whence they came. It's an interesting video - if you did not know what a capacitor did, you should watch this video! The video also shows you how to make your own Leyden jar, and how to use a capacitor to power an LED.Thanks, Make!
Blinking an LED with an Arduino
Do you know what an arduino is? Arduino is a simple controller used to create interactive environments and devices - it's open source, very easily programmable , and used in a ton of applications - I've seen everything from using an arduino in a Valentine's Day display (video below) to a simple temperature sensor.Arduinos are a pretty interesting part of the Make philosphy, which spotlights building and creating/inventing things and gadgets to do things for you - and just to create something pretty awesome, most of the time. I love one of the phrases that "Makers" say: If you can't ... Read More»
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