Ledonardo
Creative
light painting hardware
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I have to say, I really love the comments here, I post something I made and everyone chimes in with a bunch…
stavros.ioHow HN took it
25 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 0 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.60.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstExecution: 7 for, 0 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive light painting results and photos
From 3 comments
Wow! Nice effects. Great job!
kuu on HNWonderfully artistic!
2sk21 on HNThe photos itself are also very nicely done!
yreg on HN
Good blend of art and technology
From 2 comments
I absolutely love the intersection of technology and art, nicely done!!
heyflyguy on HNGreat article, and I love the blend of art and technology. You are so often doing projects that involve visual, physical, and conceptual creativity; sort of concretizing the…
defined on HN
Well-written, detailed development write-up
From 3 comments
That's fun to read! Thank you for the excellent write-up.
rmbryan on HNThank you for sharing this.
pvirgiliu on HNGreat write up.
lr4444lr on HN
Objections
Pixelstick already existed; project not original
From 3 comments
Really great writeup and results! I did something similar but much simpler few years ago (https://hyperglitch.com/articles/lightstick) but instead of long exposure (as I didn't…
1g0rb on HNOh jeez, the Pixelstick existed back in 2015? Looks like I was quite late.
StavrosK on HNI think the Pixelstick originally debuted on Kickstarter in 2013 and then a more refined version came out in maybe 2016. Kickstarter link:…
dschiffner on HN
Light painting has been done for years
From 2 comments
This has actually been being done for a decade at least, you can find instructions online for it, I had the same experience with just about every idea I had when I first joined…
faceplanted on HNEven Picasso did (purportedly) the first light paintings (manually of course) back in 1949, and I've been doing manual painting with various flashlights, LED lights, fire,…
glenneroo on HN
Requests
Share the source code and BOM
From 2 comments
Nice one Stavro!!! It's been some time since your last side-project, but this one is just great. Perfect bridge of technology, photography and art. Do you plan to share the code…
NKosmatos on HNI'd love to see your code. In particular, I'd like to see what you did with "I could just directly assign the data I read from the SD card to the internal buffer of the LED…
skypanther on HN
Add depth or 3D support
From 1 comment
I really enjoyed reading about your development process! I was thinking the entire way though that it was kind of a shame that most of the images were just making "hologram-like"…
sdrothrock on HN
Questions
How the person holding the strip is removed from photos
From 2 comments
Great work, very well executed. But I have one question: if a person is moving the stick around while capturing, how do you remove the person and keep only the LEDs in the final…
kelvin0 on HNHow the person who grabs the pixel sticks is removed from the final photography?
dhlin on HN
Whether the Wi-Fi dropped packets are an issue
From 1 comment
This is really cool! I built something almost exactly like this, though we used the ESP32 instead. [1] What I find interesting is that I never had an issue with dropped columns…
jeffschofield on HN
Alternatives named
Pixelstick
From 2 comments
For an out of the box solution, take a look at the pixelstick
apandhi on HNI think the Pixelstick originally debuted on Kickstarter in 2013 and then a more refined version came out in maybe 2016. Kickstarter link:…
dschiffner on HN
Light scythe
From 1 comment
This is neat! I read about it (called light scythe https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/light-scythe-is-a-monster-led-strip-for-long-exposure-art/ ) and building my own for the 2011…
Tepix on HN
ESP32-based light brush
From 1 comment
This is really cool! I built something almost exactly like this, though we used the ESP32 instead. [1] What I find interesting is that I never had an issue with dropped columns…
jeffschofield on HN