BlinkM - RGB LED Projects made easy
If you read Russell’s great post, Reskilling For An Age of Things and sympathised with his woeful soldering skills, these BlinkM programmable RGB LEDs might be just the thing to kick start a project.
They are RGB LEDs with a tiny programmable microcontroller to change the colours easily. You can plug them into an Arduino and program them or you can use their natty little sequencer (see below) to create colour sequences. Think of it as a drum machine for colour.
They only cost $12.95 from Sparkfun. Maybe I’ll actually get around to making something (I might even make something talk).
(Via Tinker.it. More images in todbot’s Flickr set.)
[tags]arduino, blinkm, LED, physical_computing[/tags]
Comments
Greate Work. Could i get it to Germany?
Sparkfun would probably send it to Germany. Maybe contact their customer service or ThingM: http://thingm.com/products/blinkm
You can check out my very simple blinkM project here. No micro required and still pretty cool.
http://natnlabs.net/joomla/content/view/12/1/
Add the micro like described here and it will go from cool to awesome!
Nat’n, nice to see it in action so easy. Let me know if you make some more projects.
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