{"id":15769,"date":"2016-10-30T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2016-10-29T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:27:31","slug":"15769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15769","title":{"rendered":"Amazing flaming art piece uses Raspberry Pi 3 to control 2000 blinkies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15771\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15771\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/laattrata.jpg?resize=560%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"'Le Attrata,' 2016. Photo by Meike Gugel\" width=\"560\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/laattrata.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/laattrata.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/laattrata.jpg?resize=560%2C448&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/laattrata.jpg?resize=260%2C208&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/laattrata.jpg?resize=160%2C128&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Le Attrata,&#8217; 2016. Photo by Meike Gugel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A fantastic sculpture\/musical instrument is currently being shown at various festivals in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/therm-fire.com\/le-attrata\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therm-fire.com\/le-attrata\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attrata<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is an\u00a0innovative fire sculpture created by Therm, made up of three stainless steel moths with 12-foot wingspans, set on top of 18-foot high spires. The moths (turbine-driven blast furnaces) ignite,\u00a0spark, pop, and whine, while three human musicians &#8220;play\u201d them like instruments. Two thousand programmable LEDs are embedded in the sculpture and glow and shift, projecting\u00a0incredible light patterns. These LEDs are controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3 and FadeCandy. <a href=\"http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/flaming-sculpture-festival-marvel-engineering\" target=\"_blank\">Read more over at The Creators Project<\/a>\u00a0and see more photographs over at <a href=\"http:\/\/therm-fire.com\/le-attrata\/\" target=\"_blank\">Therm&#8217;s own website<\/a>. You can see a video of it in action at Burning Man 2016 below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/188563011\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic sculpture\/musical instrument is currently being shown at various festivals in the United States. Le\u00a0Attrata\u00a0is an\u00a0innovative fire sculpture created by Therm, made up of three stainless steel moths with 12-foot wingspans, set on top of 18-foot high spires. 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