Once built, you can deploy your finished creation across multiple platforms without having to write custom code or deal with specialized deployment systems and processes. You can create realistic virtual environments and scenes without having to acquire or master specialized tools for 3D modeling, animation, lighting, audio editing, or programming.
I’m happy to announce that Sumerian is now generally available. You can build VR, AR, and 3D experiences for a wide variety of popular hardware platforms including mobile devices, head-mounted displays, digital signs, and web browsers. As you can see from Tara‘s blog post ( Presenting Amazon Sumerian: An Easy Way to Create VR, AR, and 3D Experiences), Sumerian does not require any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise. We announced Amazon Sumerian at AWS re:Invent 2017. addressable LEDs LED matrix LEDs lighting makeTVee nightlight Raspberry Pi Zero/Zero W Your Projects Amazon Sumerian – Now Generally Available The post LED Matrix Cylinder - a blinkenlights tube appeared first on Raspberry Pi. Thanks, makeTVee - if you’d like to leave your real name below, we’ll credit you properly here!
MakeTVee has built a Pygame-based simulator of the whole matrix so you can program it to do exactly what you want: scroll marquee text, make pretty patterns, twinkle at random, display images: the world’s your (pixellated) oyster. LED matrix cylinder based on WS2812 LEDs and some laser cutter parts. In the case to the side is the Raspberry Pi Zero that’s driving the whole thing. Here it is doing its thing: LED matrix cylinder WS2812 Raspberry Pi Zero
It’s simple, but really rather beautiful and very effective. The cleverness is in the layout and the really meticulous execution: vertical strips of LEDs form a cylinder in a laser-cut frame, with a very thin layer of wood veneer glued around the whole thing to act as a diffuser. This project is from makeTVee on Instructables. Once you’ve built something like this, you’re only limited by your imagination - and it’s nice enough to display in your home. It’d make for a lovely interactive nightlight in a kids’ room, or for a grown-up lighting feature that you could also use as a news ticker or something that monitors your in-home IoT devices. We see lots of addressable LED projects, but there was something weirdly charming and very pretty about this cylinder of squares.