All,
I finished building my EQ based color organ for the GE lights (GEEQ) earlier in the week, but haven't had time to get back to the forum to post the results until now.
The box takes a 3.5mm stereo jack audio input into the EQ chip and the then connects to the GE lights via my molex connector setup. The Boarduino is now being powered by the GE string and it seems to be working OK even thugh I don't think 5.6V is quite enough input for the 5V regulator.
The button on top switches between the various effects I have loaded into the Arduino. I have used diamaunts code post as the basis and included those effects along with 2 based on input recieved from the MSGEQ7 chip. The first effect is a basic color orgran that maps the mid/high/low from the audio to the R/G/B channels of the LEDs. The second effect is a sort of xmas color organ that starts with alternating red and green bulbs at 50% brightness, so they never go dark. The high/low read from the audio then determine the brightness from 50%-100%. It works very well to Christmas music.
See the attached pictures of the finished box. Excuse the shameless plugs for Sparkfun and Adafruit, but without them I would still be just blinking the LED on the Arduino...
I made a video of it working, but haven't had a chance to upload it etc... yet.
willnue
willnue
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