Interactive LED Music Visualizer
Contributors:
Michael Bartlett
Resources and Going Further
To see all the code used int his project, visit the GitHub repository.
- If you want to get really crazy, hackaday demonstrates how to power 1000 NeoPixels with the Arduino's limited RAM.
- Why not bring your visualizer along with you to a music venue? Mark Easley over at hackster shows us how to integrate some LEDs into your clothes.
- Of course, if you are going to wear it, you may want to consider some portable sources of power. Check out the Sunny Buddy Hookup Guide to learn how to efficiently charge a battery with solar power.
- Or check out the Mean Well LED Switching Power Supply Hookup Guide when daisy chaining LED strips.
Need more inspiration? Check out these other SparkFun tutorials:
My Drunk Kitchen Apron
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Hackers in Residence: The Sound Visualizer Pt. 2
An addition to a previous project, this time using a PC and a custom Java app to create your own music visualizer using a RGB LED matrix.
THAT InGenius and OutSmarts Breakout Hookup Guide
Learn about the benefits of balanced signal transmission, and how to apply the THAT InGenius and OutSmarts breakouts.
Audio Codec Breakout - WM8960 Hookup Guide
The SparkFun Audio Codec Breakout - WM8960 is a low power, high quality stereo codec chock full of features. In this tutorial, some of these features by using an Arduino microcontroller to configure the audio codec and pass audio to the headphone or speaker channels.