{"id":15536,"date":"2016-09-22T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15536"},"modified":"2016-09-22T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:47:02","slug":"a-sunrise-lamp-of-astounding-blinkiness-run-by-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15536","title":{"rendered":"A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It uses 288 RGB bright LEDs, which are individually addressable, placed in a wide PVC plumbing pipe. Also inside the pipe are various speakers, an amplifier and, of course, a Raspberry Pi (this one’s a version 2). There’s a persistence of vision time display in addition to the sunrise effect and sounds are played through a USB dongle to get better sound than the Pi alone can generate. The software is written entirely in Python and the output is controlled via a series of ‘theme’ folders which contain the light pattern configuration and sounds to be played. He has, of course, also written a ‘party’ theme which flashes the lights in patterns and plays dance music. This two year project is covered extensively on his blog<\/a> and you can see a demo of many of the themes below.<\/p>\n