Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 33 minutes ago

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LED Music/Motion Staff

Overview of tech:
youtube.com/watch?v=RYYf4gASHvg

some vids of testing
youtube.com/watch?v=nYb9OaOKM7w
youtube.com/watch?v=ZYORZksvQC0

-Arduino Nano X2
-Acrylic Tube
-LED strip (can be anything, but here custom made)
-Electret microphone X2
-Battery power supply X2


If you like, you might wanna check out my youtube channel
youtube.com/user/freedscript

and my artists website
dscript.org

I know there are tons of LED staffs that can even draw persistence of vision graphics. This one does not use an accelerometer(yet), just electret microphones.

It can be done using a purchased led strip, but depending on dimensions custom might be better. For this one I tapered led density, low in middle high in ends, because the ends move faster so this helps it the light fill more evenly when spinning fast.

Electret microphone picks up sound and motion(well it picks up the "whoosh" sound of the motion anyway)

GREAT project for getting practice with sensor signal processing

(can easily be reduced to everything inside tube but for prototype testing and r&d I highly recommend an arduino on the outside at first ;) )

If you like, you might wanna check out my youtube channel
youtube.com/user/freedscript

and my artists website
dscript.org

Keep on hacking :)