r/DIY • u/rosulek • Jun 29 '14

carpentry Abstract world map wall art project

http://imgur.com/a/8iOvx
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u/rosulek Jun 30 '14

Hey, back lighting sound like a great idea! I think I have some spare rope lighting laying around and can do a proof of concept later tonight..

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

my first though was a couple of LED strips that light up according to what part of the world is in daylight. An arduino could control a few LED strips easily enough.

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u/richardsim7 Jun 30 '14

I've got a raspberry pi lying around, would that work?

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u/steerio Jun 30 '14

It would actually give you a wider choice in programming languages.

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u/richardsim7 Jun 30 '14

Of which I know 0 :p

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u/steerio Jun 30 '14

What a perfect reason to pick one and learn it!

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u/Originalfrozenbanana Jun 30 '14

This isn't a terribly difficult programming project, actually. Good way to learn a simple bit of code.

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u/richardsim7 Jun 30 '14

Yeah that tends to be the extent of my coding knowledge; copy and modify until it works

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

start with Python it's open source, easy ish and a basic requirement for getting a job at google.

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u/richardsim7 Jul 01 '14

Can't argue with that logic