Incorporating Ultraluminous LED Lighting in Artworks

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The purpose of the project is to create an artwork incorporating LED lighting while providing basic information on general engineering practices for creating standalone LED art.

Creating LED-based artwork has been much more accessible due to the improved availability of RGB LED light fixtures. There are so many apparent colors of light that can be produced by an RGB cluster of LEDs. These colors are not actually producing those other frequencies of light but they are tricking the eyes into thinking that the frequencies of light are being produced.

A user has been allowed to change an arbitrary number of fixtures permanently by incorporating wireless communications with a computer. The fixture is permanently installed in real time in a room without the need for manual programming.

The LED board is based heavily on the old version while the power supply is a new version. The ATmega1281 processor was chosen in order to avoid the need to boot into Windows to program the system. A great chip Xbee RF module was used for converting a system that would normally communicate over USART transparently. The little power supply has a rating of 12W 24VDC.

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