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- Sun May 31, 2015 10:28 am #19043 Now that is an AWESOME lamp!

I had a collection of lava lamps that I had until college then went off to Japan to work for 10 years.

I thought since I love lava lamps that I'd try and make an Lava lamp APP (Android for now).

I spent a good amount of time perfecting that you can choose and save any color on it and I am pretty satisfied with it.

I wanted to get everyones feedback on it and any advice for making it better.

Please let me know, thanks!!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .lava.free

Jonathan

- Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:23 am #19221 @jonathanb02 I took a look at your app, but just online, I'm an iPhone user so can't use it.

I'd be interested in implementing something like that though? What are your thoughts on sharing your wax 'algorithm' ?

A

- Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:57 am #19222 Yes, I'd also like to see your lava lamp code.
What is your frosted cylinder - glass, arcrylic?

- Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:08 am #19224 It is a frosted glass cylinder, that i've had for a long time! Ive got a 1m strip of ws2812s 144/m wrapped around some metal pipe. I took apart a bulb and used the socket to get the 5V there. right now the ESP is on a breadboard as I'm trying to get to the bottom of some flickering green pixels....

in terms of code... i've not tackled the lava lamp type stuff... basically it does the standard adafruit neopixel effects.. rainbow... the standard ones for neopixelbus, and i've written code that allows it to generate objects in x, y, As the LEDs wrap around I had to play with it to get it say a square, but i've got that working... most of my efforts have been trying to produce ESP arduino code that allows deployment.. so wifi AP config, saving settings, colour picker, html interface... but all that has come together. It also supports UDP streaming, so you can run effects to it from pixel controller... or if you put the LEDs round the TV, and have hyperion installed on rasplex, or xbmc, you can have ambilight over serial. Works really well.... infact i've got it working at 2,000,000 baud rate with a refresh rate of 100Hz.. something not achievable with an arduino... i've been meaning to post that code on github actually...

Out of all that what would you be most interested in... my code is a bit of a mess to be honest... this is my first explore into C... but happy to help out.

I've been thinking how to implement random moving blobs of different colours...