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Splendid Light And Color Projects

A collection of projects focused on applying, displaying or manipulating visible light in some way.

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A minimalist IoT weather display that recreates the feeling of the sky through a single evolving point of light.
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PrismCube — a Weather Reactive Ambient Light Cube

the-spannerThe Spanner

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Nier Pod-inspired interactive 64×64 RGB matrix display featuring custom animations and a sound-reactive WaveForm mode.
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Project Gestalt

arnov-sharmaArnov Sharma

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Soap bubbles drift through the air, traced live by a galvo laser, and sing as voices through a generative modular synth.
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BubbleSynth: Bubbles, Lasers, and a Modular Synth

novysannovysan

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A VFD clock built from a recycled calculator display, powered by a single AA NiMH cell with USB backup and custom VFD driving.
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Single-AA NiMH VFD Clock from a Recycled Calc

sciterSciter

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Wearable BLE-MIDI gestural instrument: 12-notes, 20 scales, aftertouch, flex glissando, X/Y accelerometer, LED display, patch save/load
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SNEAKY GESTURES V2

michel-morinMichel Morin

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Hang on, is that a display on your wall?
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Vertical LED digit display boards

ken-yapKen Yap

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A laser-scanned display where a strontium aluminate screen acts like a physical frame buffer.
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Glow Engine

ajrussellAJRussell

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I've been itching to add cool things to my smart home, so I turned a moon lamp that I had lying around into a smart one!
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Making A Dumb Lamp Smart!

mctechdevMcTechDev

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Using a scope and some off the shelf parts, measure the speed of light.
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Measuring the speed of light at home

matt-vennmatt venn

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A lamp inspired by an old school telephone. The only user interface with the lamp is through rotary motion.
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Lightcomposer - A Rotary Lamp

johnJohn

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A DIY optical instrument that exploits thin-film interference and projection for ambient lighting (without using any digital technology)
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Maelstrom Lamp: Analogue Interference Light Art

michele-lorenziMichele Lorenzi

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A clock using a diffraction grating film to separate the digits from an RGB LED matrix
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Diffraction Grating Clock

moritz-v-siversMoritz v. Sivers

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RGB-LED keyboard mod for the 2025 Supercon/2026 Hackaday Europe badge
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Communicator Badge Full RGB Keyboard

maketveemakeTVee

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A lightsaber inspired necklace and a more bejeweled alternative
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Solar Powered Necklaces

colin-catlinColin Catlin

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Custom MIDI controllers using CircuitPython and RP2040 Feather
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MIDI Chord Synth Experiments

elijah-radantElijah Radant

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