Lightpack: Uploaded and open

    About 3 months have passed since the haberman @brunql posted a description of the ambilight backlight for the laptop on this blog . And today we are ready to present you a completely redesigned, now banana ™ version of this open source device :



    So, the project for these three months:
    • Got the name
    • I survived two revisions of iron and became modular (can be installed on any monitors / TVs / laptops with diagonals from 7 to 40 inches)
    • I learned to work with a different number of LEDs from 1 to 8
    • Learned to fully use USB 2.0 thanks to the microcontroller of the AT90USB family (even firmware can now be changed without a programmer )
    • I got the opportunity to individually adjust the brightness of each channel for each LED (if suddenly in the party there were LEDs with different heat of light)
    • Got rid of “childhood diseases” (flickering during data transfer, redundant settings, raw interface, etc.)
    • Moved to hosting GoogleCode projects
    • I got documentation, though not very typical, but still
    Unlike Pixelkit , we are announcing this project at an earlier stage and hope to get help, or at least advice from people who are really interested. Before collecting something based on the instructions , wiring and diagrams published by us , read carefully about the principles of the device, if you have any questions from the last time. We remind you that the project is completely open and all its materials are distributed under the GNU GPL3 license. Sources of software and firmware can be merged from the repository. Compiled files along with the device diagram and its layout are stored in the download section. If you decide to polish karma, go to @brunql's profile. He drags software and hardware alone.






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