{"id":18141,"date":"2018-01-29T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18141"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:36:24","slug":"mimicking-the-behaviour-of-fireflies-with-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18141","title":{"rendered":"Mimicking the behaviour of fireflies with a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/251878736\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Skirpan has developed a system of 400 LEDs that mimic the behaviour of fireflies. Run off a Raspberry Pi, the system is modelled on\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">the dynamics of firefly <\/span>synchronisation.\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">The LEDs are randomly started up at a random blinking frequency and slowly they &#8216;learn&#8217; from one another until they become <\/span>synchronised<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">. How this is achieved is a bit of a mystery, because there&#8217;s not much detail on the project. Pretty, though!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2018\/01\/26\/recreating-firefly-synchronization-with-400-leds-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanks to Adafruit for spotting this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Skirpan has developed a system of 400 LEDs that mimic the behaviour of fireflies. 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