LED Guitar Helps Beginners Learn To Play Like A Pro

Learning to play guitar usually means watching someone else place their fingers in the right spots and attempting to copy, then trying to remember where the heck you’re supposed to put them all when it comes time to play that chord again. That’s why this Fretlight LED guitar from Optek Music Systems seems like a fun and easy way to learn how to play. LED lights show you the proper finger placement for whichever song you’re playing, so you just have to follow the little red lights and you’ll be playing in no time. It’s like your own private tutor and light show all rolled into one!
Link –Via: DesignTAXI, Via: Neatorama

Awesome LED Cube

Project page: http://www.instructables.com/id/Led-C...

Audio track: Absorb Projects - Homeless. LINK: Youtube

16 Innovative & Awesome LED Art Sculptures

LEDs are the way to use tons and tons of lights and still use very little electricity. Artists, sculptors, and architects use LEDs to create stunning light displays, like this one found at the Italian Light Sculpture Festival in Nanjing, China. See more pictures from the festival and other LED art projects at WebEcoist. Link -Via: Rue the Day, Via: Neatorama

4 Head LED Moon Flower

This is the perfect light for your next party. It gives out a spectacular moonflower display and strong colourful light beams. LINK: Youtube

Spinning RGB LED Ball II

"QUOTE" When this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious sh!t!

Unlike it's predecessor this one has three axes. It was very challenging to build, with a total of 9 slip-contacts, not including the motors. I made it from scrap I had laying around and it took about a week to build. I use standard DC-motors controlled with pulse width modulation, the LEDs are controlled with a modified bike light with adjustable frequency. I'm very sorry about the quality, my camera can't keep up and it makes a lot of flicker that isn't really there, and the LEDs oversaturate the image. LINK: Youtube

LED PAIN RELIEVER

“Using technology developed by NASA to heal astronauts’ injuries, this device’s 60 LEDs produce safe infrared heat to stimulate blood circulation, relieve swelling in joints, and loosen tight muscles. A study at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee showed the LED technology reduced painful inflammation by up to 37%. Unlike heating pads that only treat just below the skin’s surface, the LED light penetrates deep into tissue for lasting relief from muscle aches. The device begins to relieve pain when placed 1/4″ from the skin. The lightweight, brush-shaped design is easy to move around the body and hold in place.” LINK

LED Cube Colorfully Assimilates Desktops

This LED art cube is no Shanghai Dream Cube, sure, but let's be honest: The smaller cube is slightly more affordable and China would never let you have that building in the first place.

For about $100, the art cube will bathe your desktop with light from 64 LEDs, arranged in a 4x4x4 grid. A variety of pre-programmed patterns will get things started, while the magic mushrooms procured from the bodega down the street will surely do the rest. [ThinkGeek, Via: Technabob], Via: Gizmodo

LED crystal ball

This video show the LED crystal ball in action, display colorful text and graphic. LINK: Youtube

LED Sea Urchins

The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories will put an LED into anything, but this is quite lovely. The dried shells of sea urchins are already beautiful, and can be made into tiny lights that resemble paper lanterns for night lights or decorations. Link, Via: Neatorama

The Propeller Clock

The prototype of the propeller clock made of the rotating 33 LEDs line and the HDD motor. LINK: Youtube

Arbyn and I have 2 hand held personal fans that have the led where you can set up what you want it to read, We used them for one of his photos when he did his 11:11 a day blog.

Coffee Can Clock

“This build is by Florinc from the Wise Time With Arduino blog. He though that a coffee can might make a great enclosure for an alarm clock. Lucky for us, this clock almost looks like a piece of art. It has these gigantic LEDs that are just so neat to have around. The electronics inside are based on the Wiseduino, an arduino clone with a real time clock on board. An LED matrix sits on top of it. Sounds pretty simple, right?” LINK, Via: Youtube

Hard Drive Clock Is An Arduino-Fueled, LED Trip

Hard drive clocks are a dime a dozen on sites like Etsy, but Hacked Gadgets reader NatureTM went the extra mile and employed an Arduino to control the time and LED light show on the reflective platters.

This is only phase one of NatureTM's project, a chronodot (for time accuracy) and a case will eventually be added. Details on the build are pretty basic at the moment, but a schematic can be requested and code should be posted...eventually. [Hacked Gadgets], Via: Gizmodo

World’s Largest LED Project Completed in Abu Dhabi

"If you think your neighbor’s holiday lighting spectacle is an exercise in excess, wait till you see the world’s largest LED project, recently completed in Abu Dhabi. Created by Asymptote Architecture with lighting design by Arup, The Yas Hotel is a wrapped with a sparkling shell composed of more than 5,300 diamond-shaped panels bristling with over 5,000 LED fixtures. The curvilinear field of lights is capable of running color-changing light sequences and can even display low-res three-dimensional videos.” LINK

A Clock Redrawn by Hand Every Minute

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When you watch this video, you might think that this is a man standing behind a sheet of plastic, re-drawing the hands on a clock face every minute. Actually, this clock by designer Maarten Baas is a LED screen showing the artist doing precisely that on a continuous loop. The video is from the recent Design Miami fair, which ended on December 5th.

Link, Via: Gizmodo | Artist’s Website | Design Miami, Via: Neatorama

The Magic LED Paint Roller

In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the
multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables
them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. Dubbed
"video painting", this technology allows them to essentially "paint" video onto any
surface. Shooting in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, the duo spent weeks
documenting their work in urban settings to create "The Landing" the first in a
series of episodes that showcases their work as artist, technologist and performers.
This video shows 4 full uncut extra clips form the landing.

Video and Music by SWEATSHOPPE. LINK, Via: Vimeo

Lili Lite Bookshelf

An excellent combination enters a rack, a lamp and a bedside table. Integrated containing LED and equipped with an integrated automatic sensor, the light dies out when a book is posed on the rack. Effective and thought very well. LINK

Interactive LED Coffee Table Demo

LINK: Youtube

LED Ghosties for Halloween

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making simple ghost decorations with cool LED eyes!

You can make these simple LED ghosties (based on LED throwies) from a soda bottle, a couple of LEDs and batteries, string, and a scrap of fabric. Hang them in your trees, your haunted house, or in your porch for Halloween. They look especially excellent because the eyes seem to float in mid-air behind the fabric.

Link, Via: Neatorama

Greenpix: Giant Solar-Powered LED Wall in China

Greeting visitors attending the Xicui entertainment complex near the site of the games is a 20,000 square foot wall of computer-controlled LEDs, the largest of its kind ever built. Better yet, the wall manages to power itself completely using only the sun.

The GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall, designed by Simon Giostra & Partners and Arup, uses thousands of solar capture cells attached to each of its glass panels to charge up during the day and then release dazzling light shows at night. It’s the first time perforated photovoltaics laminated in glass have ever been used in a building in China, but if all goes off without a hitch, it most certainly won’t be the last. Link | Greenpix website. Via: Neatorama



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