Stage Lighting with LEDs, GH, Firefly and Arduino

We've really been enjoying playing with Firefly and Arduino lately. Many thanks to the Firefly development team! It's helping get physical computing to catch on amongst those designers who are already using Grasshopper. It's going to be fun to watch Firefly develop...

We recently built a 1:24 scale model of a studio theater. The design team did a great job building the model, but it was so seamless (thank you laser-cutter!) that it was waaaaay tooooo dark inside. Even after the viewing holes had been cut, it was literally a black-box. Our solution was to rig up a bunch of high-intensity LEDs on the theater catwalk to illuminate the stage in an attempt to create something akin to the dramatic lighting during an actual show. So we mounted the LEDs in black plastic tubing to get the can- and spot-light effects. The lights were wired back to an Arduino board and we used the Firefly in Grasshopper to control the whole system...it was sort of the Arduino equivalent of "Hello World" x 10.

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