What is it?

GlowLight is an Arduino-based clone of Philips' Ambilight.

Demo time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lvGv4p_Qg)

Hardware

1 x Arduino Uno board

1 x ShiftBrite Shield

16 x ShiftBrite LEDs

1 x laptop with a webcam

and some necessary interconnects

Software

1. Build GlowLightArduino sketch and upload to Arduino board
2. Download and install Cinder
3. You'll need Visual Studio 2010 to build GlowLightCinder project as-is, with some adjustment for Cinder paths. Code should be able to be built on any platform supported by Cinder, I plan on adding Xcode project when have a chance.

Using

Upload sketch to Arduino

Launch Cinder app and make four clicks to set up screen sampling coordinates.

Keys:

• f - fullscreen toggle
• s - black out screen
• m - mirror LEDs colors left/right
• b - show smoothed / original webcam capture
• c - show color samples