2025-04-19 –, K4b Hardware Workshop
Language: English
Learn how to program and light up LED strips.
It's super easy and fun to make your life trippy and beautiful.
For total beginners.
Make your life trippy and beautiful!
LED strips have become really inexpensive. And many people have created easy methods of controlling the color and brightness of individual LEDs in LED strips. This workshop will show you a couple of easy and fun ways to control LED strips, and to make them do what you want. I'll show you everything you need to know to use existing Arduino programs -- and how to hack Arduino programs -- to control the colors in your world with LED strips.
Workshop Itinerary:
Intro to Red-Green-Blue (RGB) LEDs
Brief intro to Arduino
How to use an Arduino to control an LED strip
Some demos of programs you can download for free
Materials cost:
The workshop is free, but if you would like to partake in the hands-on aspects of the workshop, Mitch will have materials for €20.
Optional: Bring your laptop if you want to go home with the free Arduino software installed on it.
Arduino software runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux (any version is fine):
Arduino software
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 SilyValley 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 founder of Cornfield Electronics.