I'm designing a sound-reactive RGB LED Controller that you guys might be interested in.. Can you fill out my survey?

[DarkerMorgul]

Hi Guys!

For college this year I am hoping to design and produce an RGB LED Controller which actively changes and flashes the LEDs based on whatever sounds are playing on your system. So, in a game if there was an explosion I am hoping to have it flashing red/yellow colours and if, for example, you're listening to quite calm music it might light up blue instead.

Please bare in mind that this is still very early days on this project and it will be complete around May time!

I'm just hoping to justify my idea to my tutor by showing him that there are more saddos like me (no offence intended) who do want to see their computer light up loads of colours!

And please, if anyone has seen anything like this before then let me know what it is! I am aware that there are some kits which just flash to different sounds but I'm hoping for full colour control based on the sound!

Needless to say, this is towards my Electronics Engineering HNC so I'll be adding some code into it and high/low pass filters and frequency to DC convertors and damn am I excited to start coding and designing this thing!!!

Thank you!

I have already posted about this in Case Modding and Other Mods but I wanted a larger discussion on this to allow for a better overall project, so I sincerely apologise for posting twice.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FWHKJ6Z

[Jerakl]

Done

[Flyguygamer]

Already done.

[WhatTheQuack]

Sounds awesome, good luck!

[Padunkadunk]

Done. Sounds great. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[EST_FatBoy]

I can already imagine having something like this. Awesome!

[Str_Mape]

Done, if it gets approved you should start a thread to keep us updated.

[Phillyphries]

Apology accepted 

 

Have great luck on your endeavor!

[Mt. Knos]

Done sounds like a great idea

[j.dirona]

Hey so my and my brother did something similar to this here's a video of what we did

You probably already know most of this stuff but if it helps here ya go anyway, basically its just an arduino hooked up to a bunch of LED strips. But the program is where the magic happens.

basically it sample audio using the arduino then it performs some math transforms on it (fast fourier transform on it) that gives me data about the frequency spectrum of the music I am playing then I wrote beat detection algorithm to tell the arduino when it detects a beat and every time it detects a beat it displays a new animation or restarts an animation.

 

Anyway yeah it's definitely a good idea, go for it I'd buy it for sure

[DarkerMorgul]

 

Hey so my and my brother did something similar to this here's a video of what we did

You probably already know most of this stuff but if it helps here ya go anyway, basically its just an arduino hooked up to a bunch of LED strips. But the program is where the magic happens.

basically it sample audio using the arduino then it performs some math transforms on it (fast fourier transform on it) that gives me data about the frequency spectrum of the music I am playing then I wrote beat detection algorithm to tell the arduino when it detects a beat and every time it detects a beat it displays a new animation or restarts an animation.

 

Anyway yeah it's definitely a good idea, go for it I'd buy it for sure

 

This is awesome! What sort of audio interface did you use between this and the arduino? I'm using a mbed NXP LPC1768 for my protoyping

[j.dirona]

Same actually, although I think my brother ordered a new one, not sure what it is yet ordering from china takes forever -.- but its way cheaper so yay