easy tools used well can produce fantastic results. The hardware which [Gilad] uses in this project is the definition of common. We’d bet you have many if not all of them on hand best now. but the end product is a light box which seems to dance and twirl with every sound in the room. You ought to go view the demo video before reading the bill of materials so that the simplicity doesn’t spoil it for you.
A wooden craft box serves as the enclosure. inside you’ll find an Arduino board, microphone, and an 8×8 RGB module. The front cover of the project box diffuses the light using a sheet of tracing paper on a frame of foam board. It’s the code that brings everything together. He wrote his own particle system library to generate interesting animations.
If you don’t have a project box on hand this might work with an extra-deep picture frame.