Beacon4

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Beacon4 will be the fourth incarnation of the flagpole beacon, for Burning Man 2012. This year the plan is to take a different approach, and light the entire scaffold tower, not just a beacon on top of the flagpole on the tower.

Project Status

  • 2012-04-23: Requested permission from NeonBunny to attach LEDs to the tower.
  • 2012-04-22: Started putting together idea.

Ideas/Plans

  • Main idea is to cover most of the scaffold tower in addressable LED strips, driven by one or more StrichLux modules
  • Art-Net will be used between the controller and the StrichLux driver box/translation engine
    • DMX input module could be brought along and swapped in if someone wants to manually control the "display"
  • BeagleBone is being looked at to control the whole display
    • <1W idle, 1.75W full load
    • Comes with onboard ethernet