<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><description>Celebrate Chinese New Year with element14! Day Seven: The Lantern Festival Nimen hao! Admittedly, the Lantern Festival actually takes place on the closing day of the Chinese New Year celebrations, but it feels a little too important to leav...</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:41:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>mudz</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Ahaha my dream is to cover every mm of my room walls with RGB led&amp;#39;s. So I can do anything like making whole wall as a painting or TV or anything whatever I wish that day. &lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8/4503.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ll do this one day. I know I&amp;#39;m crazy. &lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8/contentimage_5F00_2516.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers !! &lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8/4503.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;mudz&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2016 10:57:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>tonyboubady</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;My &amp;quot;Smart Vehicle Headlight&amp;quot; Roadtest+ project &lt;a class="jive-link-blog-small" href="https://www.element14.com/community/groups/roadtest/blog/2016/01/17/ti-and-w%C3%BCrth-elektronik-led-roadtest--grande-finale--1010"&gt;TI and Würth Elektronik LED RoadTest+ - Grande Finale - 10/10&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 02:11:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>momososo</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;"&gt;Reminded me I didn&amp;#39;t win &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;"&gt;TI and Würth Elektronik LED RoadTest+&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;"&gt;roadtest...&lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8/3323.contentimage_5F00_2.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8/3323.contentimage_5F00_2.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:28:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>mcb1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I am still trying to sort out the RGB housing and a practical and simple method of control for the IoT Xmas Lights project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[mention:b0bc65b9ecdc4307bd967592f00e340a:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]&lt;/span&gt; did a very good project controlling the Infineon Controller using a Rotary Encoder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-blog-small" href="/technologies/robotics/b/blog/posts/building-an-led-lamp-with-the-rgb-led-shield-from-infineon"&gt;Building an LED Lamp with the RGB LED Shield from Infineon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-blog-small" href="/products/arduino/arduino-projects/b/blog/posts/building-a-full-color-lamp-with-the-rgb-led-shield-from-infineon"&gt;Building a Full Color Lamp with the RGB LED Shield from Infineon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This solution would solve the &amp;#39;non techie control&amp;#39; by a simple wall mounted control.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve also been considering changing the halo lights in my car to RGB versions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SO I have enough LED based projects to keep me busy for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 12:50:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>mconners</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;So many projects to control lighting, whether flashing leds, on synchronizing to music, lots of fun projects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:37:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>ntewinkel</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;d like an alarm clock that wakes me gently by emulating a sunrise. Especially important in our dark winters here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:09:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>mzungu</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m stumped on this one - I just can&amp;#39;t think of an interesting lighting project which would be any better than my existing 12VDC LED house lights - the system works just fine. Sorry &lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8/contentimage_5F00_2.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 04:47:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>sandeepdwivedi</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;LED illuminated Lantern flying with help of balloons....direction controlled with DC motor fans&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:28:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>crjeder</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I am going to build one of those ambilight clones using Raspberry Pi&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://github.com/gkaindl/ambi-tv" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="https://github.com/gkaindl/ambi-tv"&gt;https://github.com/gkaindl/ambi-tv&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 17:24:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>lahcen005</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;RGB LEDs shine in plexiglass and using PWM to create different colors&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 16:18:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>wolfmountaingames</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Light up path controlled by a motion sensor if someone or a animal walks down this path then the lights on the sides of it will light up. There would be a switch to turn the sensor off so that you dont waste energy in the day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:29:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>cstanton</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZelISbFKTeI:440:330]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leeds Hackspace&amp;#39; uber 3D LED cube&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:01:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>Workshopshed</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve some 8x8 I2C LED matrix that I still need to experiment with. Perhaps a Beaglebone or Pi Zero project ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.adafruit.com/images/1200x900/1080-00.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="1080-00.jpg" class="image-1 jive-image" height="320" src="https://www.adafruit.com/images/1200x900/1080-00.jpg" width="427" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:01:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>grahamwebberjhb</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The LED cube is quite common but has anyone done the same in spherical co-ordinates, the LED sphere could be an interesting build.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Year of the Monkey Badge: Lantern Festival</title><link>https://community.element14.com/members-area/b/blog/posts/year-of-the-monkey-badge-lantern-festival</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2016 21:39:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9db79722-97ed-4972-ad54-357a4c23fee8</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;There are so many things you can do with light, especially when you look at polarization and spectral content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My idea for a spectral illuminator for a microscope is just one of many ways to explore the world of hidden information normally ignored within normal pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Playing with RGB layers can show you an whole new universe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAB&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=1103&amp;AppID=75&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>