Need a lightshow for your stage act?

[Jay Vaughan]

> So what is it? Some sort of beamer that projects stuff from your computer on a wall?

Its a multi-function flashlight, basically, with all kinds of nifty features.

Here is the user manual:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_cqh2J4C_Npqz5KXsosdRo691K8Sucw97ZeopUi3K8k/edit

It has some nice pictures in it which describe the operation of the thing.

Basically, you have different modes:

* POV (Persistence of Vision)- this lets you display simple icons by simply waving the thing around.  Inbuilt are Pacman, the ghosts, space-invader, a mouse icon, and so on - other icons can be added easily enough.
* Color and Proximity sensor: you can 'capture' colors from your environment, and the LED's will show that color - so point it at a red carpet, it samples the colors and replicates it.  Very cool feature.  It also can be set up to glow brighter the closer something gets, so you can use it as an alarm system/proximity sensor for bicycles or whatever.
* Vibration Mode: Will visualize vibrations - put it on your speaker = instant light show.  (In this mode you can also capture colors from your environment to program the light color)
* Moving Shadow mode: this is very cool - it will produce multiple different-colored shifting light effects, which, when you put a stencil object in front of it (anything, basically) will be projected in a sort of '3d shadow' on the wall behind it.  Hard to describe, but its fantastic.
* Rainbow Shadow: similar to above, except it follows a rainbox pattern instead of a random shifting color scene.
* Disco mode: this is the classic 'knightrider' effect, except you can cycle through a couple different settings.
* Flashlight mode: the most intensively bright flashlight you'll ever own.  You can have the superbright LED on, the UV light (yes kids:Ultraviolet light), or ALL LED's.
* Binary Watch: shows the time with POV.
* LED WARZ: a funny little game.  ;)


Anyway, its basically a fully programmable (open source) flashlight on steroids.  If you wanted a tl;dr version: its a Light Synthesizer.  :)


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Jay Vaughan