The software is quite straightforward – just install BitTorrent Sync on the Raspberry Pi. The Pi was connected to power and Ethernet and the LED’s wired up. Holes were drilled to fix the four LED’s and faux crystal drawer pull knobs. He started off with a nice, square piece of wood and mounted the lid on it.
wanted to use the Mason Jar to help preserve family memories.īasically, he just stuffed a Raspberry Pi inside a jar with some LED’s and put BitTorrent Sync on it. Mason Jars have long been used to preserve food. What makes it stand out is the idea of using a Mason Jar as the enclosure and the nice build finish. used a few off-the-shelf parts and built a Raspberry-Pi based BitTorrent Sync client to help backup files. Posted in Raspberry Pi Tagged cube, led, led strip, leds, linux, lpd8806, notification, Pi, python, raspberry pi, Raspi He ended up reprogramming the Pi to pull weather information instead, making use of the exact same hardware for another, more useful purpose. He just didn’t have enough alerts to justify the need. Over time found that the cube wasn’t as useful as he originally thought it would be. The frosted look helps to diffuse the light from the LEDs. The sides were made of frosted laser cut acrylic. Each face of the cube would end up with three strands of two LEDs each, or six LEDs per side. found a mount for the Pi on Thingiverse and used a 3D printer to bring it into existence. He wired the data pins directly to the Pi and used an old 5V cell phone charger to power the LEDs. found a Python library that allowed him to directly control an RGB LED strip based on the LPD8806 chip. The brain of the system is a Raspberry Pi. His project would help him to visualize and categorize each alert to better understand its importance. The idea being that smart phones have so many alerts, many of which are unimportant. chose to build an illuminated notification cube for his first physical project. This program gave him access to 3D printers, CNC machines, and laser cutters within the New York Hall of Science makerspace. He was part of a pilot program to provide mentorship to children as part of the Maker Education Initiative. Two years ago, made a move away from his software hacks and into the physical world. Posted in Raspberry Pi, Video Hacks Tagged raspberry pi, triptych, video It’s a beautiful build, though, and if you ever need to command multiple monitors to display the same thing, this is how you do it. According to, it’s a somewhat hacky solution with a bunch of sleep statements at the beginning of the script to allow the boot processes to finish. One of the Raspberry Pis serves as the master, commanding the slaves to start, stop, and rewind the video on cue.
For this, networked the Pis through an Ethernet hub, got the videos to play independently on a RAM disk with omxplayer. Putting three monitors and three Pis in a frame isn’t the hard part of this build getting three different displays all showing different videos is. The chassis is a bunch of aluminum bars and U channel encased in an extremely well made arts and crafts style frame. Power is provided by a 12V, 10A switching supply with 5V stepdown converters for the Pis. The electronics used in the build were three Raspberry Pi 2s and a trio of HDMI displays. Sounds like a cool engineering challenge, huh? This is no ordinary triptych with a frame for three pictures – this is a video triptych, with three displays each showing a different video, and everything running in sync.
A filmmaker friend of mentioned that she would like to display a triptych at the 2015 Venice Art Walk.
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