[hackerspaces] Disco themed project?

[Ben Hibben]

One of our members built a dodecahedron disco-ball speaker.  This is a
3D-printer and laser-cutter friendly project.

Blenster

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd try to make a multicolor disco ball that reacts to the music.  Have it
> listen to the music, divide it up into the frequency channels like an
> equalizer then turn on the different colors based on which channel goes
> over some threshold.  You could also make the ball spin the other way if it
> hears a gap in between songs or if crossfading, if it detects a different
> song!
> Or just make it all simple and just randomly change colors and direction...
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Mo Morsi <mo at morsi.org> wrote:
>
>> Not exactly disco related but a few of us at sig315 [1] were working on a
>> Arduino controlled barber shop pole using el-wire [2]. Unfortunately the
>> project never got fully finished but the idea was the pole would light up
>> when various events were detected. Things like transactions on the bitcoin
>> network [3], a space opening for the day [4], etc.
>>
>> Perhaps you can build an Arduino controlled disco ball.
>>
>>   -Mo
>>
>> [1] http://sig315.org/
>> [2] http://www.meetup.com/Syracuse-Innovators/photos/26011426/#435706305
>> [3] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_%28JSON-RPC%29
>> [4] http://spaceapi.net/
>>
>> On 08/17/2015 11:10 PM, Liz wrote:
>>
>> Wassail!
>>
>> At my local space CHAMP <http://hackcanton.com>, we participate in a
>> monthly downtown City arts event. Each event has a theme, with September's
>> theme being "Disco". We build (hack together
>> <https://instagram.com/p/5-G-sNRQzc/?taken-by=hackcanton>) things to go
>> with the theme.
>> However, we are not quite sure what to do for next month and  I was
>> wondering if any of you had any disco theme projects or ideas that we could
>> use? :)
>>
>>
>> ~
>> Liz
>>
>>
>>
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