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Automate and Animate Your Holiday Lights Using RGB Pixels
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2,050 students

Automate and Animate Your Holiday Lights Using RGB Pixels

Create your own animated light display using low-voltage, computer-controlled LED lights (RGB Pixels)
Highest Rated
Created byJeff Lacey
Last updated 6/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • Select the minimum components necessary to assemble an RGB Pixel display.
  • Connect, load and configure the components in their display.
  • Create and play a sequence (lighting instructions) to animate patterns on the display.

Course content

5 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 22m total length

  • Introduction3:02
  • Course Syllabus and Overview0:23
  • What Are Pixels? What Do They Look Like?3:45
  • Design Your Display0:55

Requirements

  • Students should be comfortable using a computer and have some understanding of computer networking.
  • Students should have a basic understanding of electronics. Understand Ohm's Law and how current flows through wires.
  • Students should be able to join electrical wires together with a soldering iron.
  • Student should have some disposable income - these lights are more expensive than traditional holiday lights.

Description

If you’ve ever passed by an engaging light display and thought, "I wonder how they do that" then this course is for you. The material is technical, but I know many people without technical backgrounds that have put beautiful displays together. If you can do some basic wiring, have and know how to use a computer and have a little creativity, I’ll show you how you can automate and animate your lights.

Who this course is for:

  • People interested in learning how to create a computer-controlled holiday light display.

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