Aurora Borealis alert! Raspberry Pi and NeoPixels work together

James Singleton from BlinkinLabs has written a nice script that accesses data from Lancaster University’s Aurora Watch and then, if an Aurora Borealis is happening, displays an Aurora-like light show on a BlinkyTape, which is a strip of NeoPixels with a USB controller built in. Take a look at the script and the associated libraries here. Here it is in action (Blinky alert!):

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