Halloween Blinky Eyes

Finally cut together some of my video of the actual deployed project. The video isn't as nice as I really wanted. It was the end of the evening, and it was threatening to rain, so I was in a hurry. And I probably should have used my Olympus camera instead of my iPhone. Lastly, I did some last-minute tweaks of the blink timing that I probably should have left alone. So there are only rare times when multiple sets of eyes are overlapping, and there are long-ish periods when no eyes are active. Still, I thought it turned out well, overall.

I successfully deployed my Blinky Eyes project for Halloween, in the shrubs near the steps of our front porch. Due to a time crunch, I didn't get to finish some last minute timing tweaks that I was working on. So the eyes strip would sometimes have no eyes glowing for a little longer than I might of liked. But maybe I'm just impatient.

I did take a couple of short videos, and when I get a chance to combine them and pare them down, I'll post the results here, so you can see the final project in context.

Thanks to the HaD staff (@Adam Fabio) for the mention in the Halloween Hacklet!

I did a battery life test today. Using a 2600 mAh USB battery I got just shy of 8 hours. Excellent!

Though there are still features I want to add to my software library, I think it's reached a point that it's deployable for Halloween. So I'm calling this project a success. I took this video in my family room, with the LED strips laid out across our loveseat. You might notice some reflections in the windows behind everything.