Thursday, April 14, 2005

MIT Students Build USB Controlled LED Dancefloor

Checkers
I guess some of the students were bored at MIT and decided to build a dance floor.

1,536 LEDs
128 square feet
4,096 colors
30 frames/second
20,000 hand-soldered connections

You can even email the dance floor!

Very cool!

Check Out their Video HERE! (28MB)Check Out their Video HERE! (5MB)

Check out the MIT website here. Complete with construction photos and a purpose statement.
Colors
Diamond
Ellipse
Matrix
Rainbow
Pinwheel

Monday, April 04, 2005

1,000 People Dancing at a Silent Rave?

I came across this article about a rave promoter that gave all of his patrons headphones instead of using a traditional sound system.


Here Is The Article.
Here is what people at djforums.com are saying about this.