LED Box running Conway's 'Game of Life'

[keosambath]

is it hard to do?? pls give a tutorial :))

I want to say I LOVE YOU to the right woman I meet

[harmfullMachinima]

dear santa.....

[VengeMusic]

Awesome! where did you get those parts?

[mrnick1234567]

@VengeMusic Sparkfun Electronics.

[pinholh]

2:34 lol

[drEmue]

wooow, beautyfull, you are a genious!!

[mrnick1234567]

It was for another sketch where I had the box running tweets and getting time / temperature from the net

[DaanVervaeren]

why is their an ethernet shield on the arduino ?

[XmusicXchikkX]

Needs some awesome rave music...

[mdoerkse]

It would be sweet to have 2 banks of 8 switches that allowed you to define different rules. Although on such a small board you couldn't really appreciate them. Cool project anyway!



[martinber710]

Cool :)

[Elune137]

2 people don't know the Game of Life...

[DJChafe]

how much would one of these cost at 60X60 AND to work with DJ lighitng controler?? :D

[lolypopboy777]

Arduino <3++

[NoNoNosViPer]

woooooooooooow...!!!

great work!!

[Bullsh0t1]

the symmetrics from 2:28 to 2:36 are just awesome.

[almightyjarve]

Now you need to make it sound activated and make it evolve to the beat of music!

[TheKiwiSniper]

im loving this lights O_O

[pride829]

Can you tell me you do this with programming ? or just using IC

[Thatguywiththelaptop]

*looks at playlist at right* Aww, I lost the game.......

[peterinbrat]

What was the parts list cost on on of those? Is it scalable?

[monkeylogique]

Nice! Do you sell these things?

[muh1h1]

i would love to do something like that too, but i'm not really talented in MCs...

i can solder, and understand some very easy Curtis(like transistors), but if someone comes with an IC i don't understand a word :(

[winnerandloser]

At 2:27 that was really interesting!

[Squashism]

that one pimp night light

[iPodiNsanity]

How does it choose the starting formation? Is it randomly generated or is there logic to the randomization of the starting configuration? Very nice by the way.

[mrnick1234567]

@iPodiNsanity it's just a bunch of random pixels to start with. If you turn enough on a pattern will evolve from them.

[iPodiNsanity]

@mrnick1234567 It's a really cool concept. I should code that in Python.

[chrisderwicht]

@iPodiNsanity

It's the "Game of Life", as the title says.

"This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form various patterns throughout the course of the game."

[UnScriptedFlix]

please make a kit of parts! I sadly don't have the time to design and build one with instructions :(

[MyNameIsTrashley]

Oh my gosh, i so want one of these!! Amazing :D

[Vim281]

3 people have lost in the game of life.

[kiyotewolf]

I'd love to have one of these on the wall.

[marcLGehtRayn]

@mrnick1234567 Do you create the different colors via PWM ? If you do how many colors are there you can choose? And how do you handle so many PWM signals?

[mrnick1234567]

@marcLGehtRayn I cheated and bought matrix modules from Sparkfun that have all the control logic taken care of. They are basic so can only handle 7 colours. (1 bit each for RGB). I have moved on to Rainbowduino which uses PWM and can handle 4096 colours. Google Seeed Rainbowduino and you'll find the schematics.

[matataka]

@mrnick1234567 if you could sync this to music somehow, i will bow down to a shrine with a plate that said "mrnick1234567" and worship it every day

[mrnick1234567]

@matataka haha, almost worth it to see you do that!

[Peanutz75]

@mrnick1234567 Do you have colors fitting the number of generations a given cell survived ?

[mrnick1234567]

@Peanutz75 yeah exactly that

[dennismoore56]

super fast compared to the last vid i saw of this. it was on minecraft :P

[TheBzlai]

@dennismoore56 LOL I SAW THE SAME ONE

[alexlencalex]

тетрис бы такой



[kelaskin]

I definitely w00t.

[TheQwerty0]

Oh my god I want it I want it I want it.

That is so beautiful. I wish ThinkGeek would start selling these.

[ExillNetworks]

Whats the RJ45 port for?

[mrnick1234567]

@ExillNetworks it's not used in the conway sketch, but in the other vid its used to get weather info from the net. I also had it scrolling my twitter feed.

Nick

[ExillNetworks]

@mrnick1234567 Ahh i can see the cable in the LED Pixel Matrix Project, video.

Cool (: Thumbs up to both videos.

[bradthegeeknet]

@mrnick1234567 Is it possiable to attach a GID(gaming input device) to the usbB port so you can controll it with switches?

[mrnick1234567]

@bradthegeeknet I don't think the Arduino can act as a usb host, you would probably need another processor to do that. But you could attach the buttons direct to the inputs pins for control. The Evilmadscientist peggy and meggy boards have buttons set up like this.

Nick

[bradthegeeknet]

@mrnick1234567 so if you get the direct input wires from a contoller's toggle swithes, you can trigger an instance

[mrnick1234567]

@bradthegeeknet Yes exactly, you would just need the buttons on the controller to act as a simple switches, you could do the rest on the Arduino.

[MASTER7VIP]

@mrnick1234567 ola disculpa como se hace eso o como se consige ese cubo o donde lo puedo consegir

[donnyab]

I don't think I would ever make one myself.....I would sit all day staring at it

[TheGadgetKidd1]

OMG braaaaains :]

[pinkfloyddwc]

that's beautiful :)

i love LEDs!

[domokun92]

This is ridiculously awesome, I want one! It would be super-sweet to have some sort of start/stop switch and made every light a button that would turn that light either on or off.

I know how hard this would be but I can dream…

[mrnick1234567]

@domokun92 you can buy the buttons from SparkFun actually - search for button pad!

[tr0llslay3r]

looks very nice !

[tarot4games]

cool

[KnebelsHerbert]

Wow! Wunderfull colors and super bright light. Great!

Is there a plan how to build such a device? What does it cost?

[mrnick1234567]

@KnebelsHerbert You can get the displays from sparkfun electronics, and the basic code from the arduino site. THere are loads of threads with help for making matrices. Cost was around $250

Nick

[DeDean16]

wow cool! :D

[Tapecutter59]

Nice job!

[NintendoFanGirl]

very intriguing...

[brefinburgs]

I wish you could show us the starting pattern so I could understand the outcome better. But thats pretty cool how you did this with hardware, it looks like a monome.

[mrnick1234567]

The starting patterns are random each time. I'm sure you could do the same with a monome and the game of life rules. Maybe use the buttons to program a start pattern even.

[graymalkin1234]

I spotted an ethernet shield there, does this thing have many purposes?

Very beautiful patterns too from the program. Great project!

[mrnick1234567]

Hey, yeah I use it to get the weather info (see the other vid) and also to scroll my twitter - I havent posted a vid of that yet.

Nick

[graymalkin1234]

Too cool

[hugothenerd]

Stunning

[Photonicinduction]

I am really impressed with that !

I think you could make money from those if you were that way in thinking.

Are these types of things out there ?

May be you should contact my company and talk to me !

[Mastertech96]

Very nice 10/5!

[RichardvdM]

What size is this matrix?

[mrnick1234567]

its 16x16 tri colour LEDs - 768 LEDs in total.

[thirtyfingers]

beutyfull and hypnotic!

[guitarist2008]

nice man!!

[Kdragonlaser]

hehe I put one of those on My sunglasses!! take a look at my vd and comment me if you have any cuestions

[mrnick1234567]

Not counted the patterns yet - I'm going for aesthetics at the mo! The leds are tri colour (rgb chips per pixel)- driven by the sparkfun backpack - check out their website for all the details.

[mathman47]

Cool. What is the highest number of stable patterns you've achieved?  How are you driving the leds? Are they tri-color? Hard to tell out here.

[mrnick1234567]

Sorry for such a long delay!

The patterns reset after a preset time at the mo so not counted. I need to write the code to be cleverer and detect this and restart. Led's are driven by sparkfun's matrix backpack controlled by anarduino.

They are tri colour LEDS, the default programming shows 7 colours, but there is a new backpack version that does 256.

[twirlywirly55]

Very cool im going to make somthing like this i hope soon very cool video 5 stars

[rek636]

Very nice.