https://github.com/emlyn/sonic-pixels

Interactive lighting effects for Sonic Pi
https://github.com/emlyn/sonic-pixels

art live-coding music neopixels python raspberry-pi raspberrypi sonic-pi

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Interactive lighting effects for Sonic Pi

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/emlyn/sonic-pixels
• Owner: emlyn
• Created: 2017-02-11T18:53:00.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-07-07T23:16:22.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-10T19:22:26.763Z (27 days ago)
• Topics: art, live-coding, music, neopixels, python, raspberry-pi, raspberrypi, sonic-pi
• Language: Python
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• Size: 38.1 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Sonic-Pixels

Interactive lighting effects for Sonic Pi.

Requires:

- A strip of NeoPixel LEDs (or similar, as long as it's supported by [rpi_ws281x](https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x)). If you don't have them yet, but still want to try this out, you can run in fake mode and it will just display the LED colours in the terminal.

- One Raspberry Pi, to control the LED strip (again, not needed to run in fake mode).

- One copy of [Sonic Pi](http://sonic-pi.net/), to make some phat beats and control your lighting fx.

It should work with any version of the Raspberry Pi, but I used a Pi zero set up to run in USB [OTG mode](https://gist.github.com/gbaman/975e2db164b3ca2b51ae11e45e8fd40a) (so it behaves like a USB gadget and draws its power from the host computer running Sonic Pi, and you also get a nice stable network connection over USB). Alternatively you could run Sonic Pi on the same Raspberry Pi that's controlling the LEDs, so you don't need a separate computer.