siklosi saw the post about using a wifi router as an Arduino wireless serial connection, and shared his own take.
This RGB LED wall is plays Winamp visualizations, and more. The LEDs are driven by Rainbowduinos, the Rainbowduinos are connected to the PC using the router as a wireless serial connection.
I made this “little” 16×8 RGB LED panel using 2 Rainbowduinos. Each Rainbowduino is capable of driving 8×8 RGB LED’s.
I used firmware neorainbow-0.8 and one Arduino board. The Arduino was attached to an Asus wl500gp wireless router. The router acts as a bridge to my home wireless network.
Drivers for rtl8187b and ftdi are installed on the router. Ser2net relays TCP to the Arduino connected to router USB port.
On the PC side a program “transfers” pixels from the active window to a panel so it can be used as a Winamp visualization, huge ambilight, or whatever…
I have not made any page but here are videos of building process and of panel in work.
Check out the build videos below the fold.
Thanks siklosi! Via the contact form.
Build video.
How it works.