{"id":16074,"date":"2016-12-13T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T09:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16074"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T09:05:04","slug":"synchronised-raspberry-pi-driven-christmas-light-show-brings-some-pizzazz-to-a-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16074","title":{"rendered":"Synchronised Raspberry Pi-driven Christmas light show brings some pizzazz to a radio station"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alec Connolly, who attends the University of Toledo majoring in electrical engineering, has recently been interning at a company called\u00a0iHeartMedia<\/a>. He was tasked by one of the directors with creating a Christmas light show that would sync with their radio station,\u00a0WRVF(FM), \u201c101.5 The River<\/a>\u201d. So he took a Raspberry Pi 2 (well, actually, from the images here<\/a>\u00a0it looks like he used an original model Pi, but I could be mistaken), some relays and some strings of multi-coloured LEDs and set to work. He used a piece of software called LightShow Pi<\/a>\u00a0to do the audio-to-light pattern conversions. They now have two different displays at two offices. You can read more here<\/a> and see a demo of it in action below:<\/p>\n