Raspberry Pi Sunrise Lamp with NeoPixel LED ring

A snapology origami sunrise lamp, night light and disco ball powered by Raspberry Pi and Adafruit's NeoPixels
I wrote about the project here:
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and it was featured in Magpie Magazine too: magpi.raspberrypi.com/issues/114
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[@TheDyingPlant]

i’ve seen one video and i can already tell you have inspired countless amounts of your students. i’m inspired and i’m nearly 30 lol such a cool project and video

[@MrZerofate]

"Like a normal person I opened it as soon as it arrived" 😂. Superb! Love the humour and the project looks great.

[@TheDyingPlant]

amazing ❤

[@nathansmith9820]

Thought provoking, inspiring project. The paper folding looks very laborious, you put a lot of work into this!

[@toadbroz30]

I got a neon sign for my birthday from my girlfriend last year. I'm working out how to us your idea with my situation :)

[@nightshocker6908]

very cool light. I will have to make one for my self one day. i use the groclock with my 3 kids and it works great also.

[@joeyg8482]

Informative and entertaining. Nice work!

[@jcoaudio]

Really well done video and nice project! Surprised the cat stood for that :-)

[@diggee172]

Very, very cute. Informative and funny. I’d like to make this. The hardest part for me would be the paper folding. I’d like to wake up to this lamp. Thanks for sharing.

[@RussellEveleigh]

The paper folding was the relaxing bit really - once you've done a few there is not much mental effort required.

[@AlanDampog]

very cool!

[@vincebanzon756]

I really like how you do things. It feels like we can talk all day and night, or even for a month.
Question though, is it possible to add a diffuser for the light to give it a uniform spread? that way it will only glow as one source of light, then the shadow patterns won't be overlayed?

[@weisnowhere]

Really enjoyed this video!
I've played with all of these elements individually but had never thought to combine them! Thanks for the inspiration. Subscribed!

[@RussellEveleigh]

Thank you and good luck with your creation!

[@martasfakeaccount2473]

I was scared if the ring wasnt going to be bright enough, guess i dont need to worry anymore 😂😂

[@Patrick-fz8ee]

Nice video, it looks very cool! I also have a ledstrip attached to my wall and connected to my raspberry pi and i’ve written some code for all kinds of effects. My only problem is that i dont know how im supposed to control the lights from my phone. My only solution right now is to run the python script manually. But what i want is that i can control the lights from my phone just like you can control for example philips hue lights. Any suggestions?

[@RussellEveleigh]

I used Mechanize to look up the program required in a JSON file on my website. Next time I might try to use Lighttpd similar to how is shown here... www.instructables.com/Toggle-an-LED-Via-the-Web-With-Raspberry-Pi/
Good luck!

[@wills_turtles]

You should look up how to use `scp` or `rsync` to sync code to your pi

[@RussellEveleigh]

Thank you - connecting remotely was a bit of a hack! I'll look into this for my next project.

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

raspberry pi just to turn on some leds?

[@RussellEveleigh]

Yeah, far simpler methods possible, but a good learning exercise.