LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone!

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 22, 2022, 7:30 p.m. (50 minutes)

Learn how to light up LED strips with a cheap Arduino, and make your life trippy and beautiful! For total beginners - no knowledge needed at all. LED strips have become really cheap. Lots of people have created inexpensive methods of controlling their color and brightness. This workshop shows one way to control LED strips, to make them do what you want. This workshop will use a very cheap Arduino clone. Mitch will show you everything you need to know to use existing programs - as-is or to hack on - to control the colors in your world with LED strips.

Presenters:

• Mitch Altman
  **Mitch Altman** is a hacker and inventor, known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He co-founded a successful SillyValley startup and did pioneering work in virtual reality. He is an author and teacher, and goes around the world giving talks and workshops. Mitch promotes hackerspaces, open source hardware, and mentors others wherever he goes. He is a co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and is president and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.

Links:

• https://scheduler.hope.net/new-hope/talk/APKFFJ/

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