ACRIS - Audio-Controlled Room Illumination System
About
The idea for this project is to simply create a few wall lamps capable of displaying any color. A microcontroller will turn audio input (e.g. music) into PWM signals to control the color and intensity of the lamps. Additionally, bypasses will allow me to manually adjust the room lighting settings for additional effects.
Blog Entries
Most of my plans are in my notebook. I'd scan the pages in and upload it here, but my handwriting is pretty much illegible. Instead, I'll add information and diagrams as I proceed with the project.
- Preliminary plans
- Side Project: AVR-Oscilloscope Spectrograph
- Evaluating 2 possibilities for LEDs
- DIY etching of QSOP packages (for LED driver)
- Wall lamp schematics and PCB layout
- FPGA Board Bringup Test (with design)
Wall Lamp
The blog post has an explanation of what I did, but here's a quick summary of the files:
Schematics (drawn with gEDA's gschem) [PDF]
PCB layout for driver board (draw with ExpressPCB)
