6x6 (576 LED) Game of Life Art Project

[drliu]

As promised (better late than never!), here is a link to some photos and a video of my game of life art project. Designing and making the frame, mount, and cover for the project was probably the most challenging part of the construction. Again, special thanks to mtbf0 for his programming help with the fading.

http://gallery.me.com/davidrliu#100074& ... &view=grid

Comments are welcome of course.

[drliu]

I posted the code for this enhanced Game of Life art project:

http://forums.ladyada.net/viewtopic.php ... 088#p60088

-David

[richms]

Any chance of putting it on youtube or vimeo at all? Am quicktime free here and keeping it that way.

[drliu]

Anyone is welcome to convert/upload the video to YouTube (I've never done so).

-David

[chankster]

Here you are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr1ThHLMZZI

[richms]

Wow, that is so much nicer then the hard transitions. I like the use of the diffuser material as well.

[chankster]

I was really interested in building something like this until i looked at the cost

$238.72 - boards
$195.50 - components
$434.22 - total without mounting

[mtbf0]

I was really interested in building something like this until i looked at the cost

$238.72 - boards
$195.50 - components
$434.22 - total without mounting

how about doing it with an emsl peggy 2.0.

or with three seeed studios rainbowduinos.

there's gotta be more than one way to skin a cellular automaton.

[drliu]

Your cost analysis is pretty much consistent with what I paid (plus about $100 for the mounting supplies-- including wood for the frame, a mat, and three squares of custom-cut plexiglas). It's not the cheapest electronic art project, but it's a great addition to the room and is actually quite soothing thanks to mtbf's fading PWM code.

-David

[sparr]

Pictures of a 30x30 gigantic variant of the Peggy 2. Ping pong balls for diffusers, 900 LEDs total, individually addressable, runs on an ATMEGA3XX chip.