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23rd February, 2021

Diorama Lighting 5: Thunder & Lightning

We want to build on our day/night cycle with some extra atmospheric effects – thunder and lightning! The code here will cover both triggering lightning based on some settings on our themes and also the design of the lightning to make things feel natural.

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23rd February, 2021

Diorama Lighting 4: Second Thoughts & Code Restructuring

The code I’ve written goes from a bright, sunny day into a rich, red sunset before moving to a clear, moonlit night – not what we probably want for a damp, dirty alleyway full of suspect looking shops!

However, before I go deleting things I’ll most likely use this code in another project where I do want a bright-and-breezy lighting scheme, maybe this is an opportunity to restructure the code to support multiple themes?

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22nd February, 2021

Diorama Lighting 3: Day & Night

This part of the process will not only build out some cool lighting effects but will help to create a backbone for the rest of the code project. I want to build something flexible that means, with a little adjusting, things like exact colour selections, timings, etc. can be set without any major code changes. This work will also define the lighting system “clock” – the loop that will run continually to simulate the different times of day.

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22nd February, 2021

Diorama Lighting 2: Shift Registers

Now I’m getting to grips with my Arduino I need to figure how to expand the 15 onboard PWM pins so that I can control more than 5 LEDs.

My list of requirements gives me in excess of 10 LEDs that will need connecting to the Arduino so I’m going to have to use the shift registers to expand things a little.

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21st February, 2021

Diorama Lighting 1: Intro

We’ve recently renovated our garage into a second living space (a bit more dedicated to the adults of the house) which as well as providing a more dedicated work-from-home space, will also give my wife somewhere nice and comfy to relax and read. The furniture is gradually arriving and next on the shopping list is a bookcase to house her collection of books.

Wanting to make things a little more special, I’m planning a bookshelf diorama (book nook) to sit alongside her Harry Potter books. There’s loads of things I need to learn to get this put together but I’m keen to add some flair with some interesting lighting.

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20th August, 2020

Fuzztopia 2020

This high-gain fuzz started as a collaborative build amongst the…

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13th August, 2020

Germanium Fuzz Face

This is a vintage inspired Fuzz Face using a positive…

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12th August, 2020

Voltage inverter

This little utility board takes up the space of a…

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12th August, 2020

My etching process

The last few months have seen lots of etching attempts…

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Diorama Lighting 4: Second Thoughts & Code Restructuring23rd February, 2021
Diorama Lighting 3: Day & Night22nd February, 2021
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