Following last post, I’d like to present a little device I created in order to help me in my light painting adventures.

I wanted to have something that could fit in my hand, and which would help me to expand the range of patterns and colors I could for light painting. The idea is to make a sandwich with an 8×8 RGB leds neopixel matrix, an arduino uno and some batteries. Yummy.

I put a push button on the little breadboard in order to be able to switch between the light patterns I programmed into the arduino when needed.

Here is the final result. I don’t know if I need to mention again that everything holds together thanks to some hot glue here and there.

The best part is : it works ! I had some fun playing with it and a magnifying glass.

We even made an RGB stick too with the same led strips we used on the skates. Unfortunatly we never got to try all these since we never took the time to go on a second light painting session…