maxwells-daemons / hell-lighting

A large-scale LED installation in the alley of Hell.

Hell-Lighting-Arduino

The Arduino code for Hell Lighting. Handles switching between patterns and running user patterns, including reading serial data from the Raspberry Pi.

If you would like to upload to the most current installed Hell Lighting board, please use the "master" branch.

If you'd like to contribute to this project, read the Contributing Guide

hell-lighting's Issues

Controls PCB

Make a (permanent-ish) printed circuit board to replace the breadboard.

Document expected behavior for all existing patterns.

Add a header to each pattern file describing what that pattern is intended to do, and - if relevant - any particularly interesting techniques used

Refactor pattern memory usage

Currently patterns allocate their memory at boot time and so we cannot have many patterns that use lots of memory. Design and implement a solution to this problem.

Refresh_Fire

The fire pattern takes 250ms to fully push. 47ms are the write, which leaves another 200ms which should be reduced to 100ms.

Update readme

Write useful readme describing how to write patterns, internals, pattern best practices, git best practices, and how to get a pattern uploaded / accepted.

Add more comments

Add comments explaining how pattern switching works.

Cannot add red_255

Adding an additional large pattern (two red_255 instances, or a red 255 and a binary) breaks the build;

Clean up git branches

Remove unused branches, rename existing branches to be more descriptive of their function, and create development branch and live branch.

Port all current patterns

11 to go.

Internal refactoring

Fix up the internal code for 1.0 release; optimizations, clarity, import structure, etc.

Pattern optimization

Go over existing patterns (especially binary counter) and optimize for running speed.

Purple LEDs

Three LEDs on strip 4 and one LED on strip 3 are purple. All the LEDs are at the ends of there respective strips.

Move readme's to a single file rather thn having folders with readmes

Distressingly unreadable

test

Hell lighting needs to be re-started periodically

Might be a memory leak, might be specific too sorting algorithm patterns.

Rename "arduino" to "live"

Enable "next pattern" button

Wire the "next pattern" button to an interrupt pin and change the internal pin mapping to enable it.

System freeses on auxilury button press

Probobly an issue with the config files.

Code review of Pot Class

We should do a code review of the pot class before we expand to using the same model other places. I think it needs tweaking before it will fit our current application.

Green Fire

The "Fire" pattern periodically has green instead of red or orange. Likely caused by a miss-set cap for the green channel.

Create curated list of example patterns

There should be a small set of patterns that are well-designed according to our design principles and documented extensively to serve as examples for how to make patterns.

Add a license

Probably the MIT license, but the legal / public use ramifications of this are worth looking into. We want as many people as possible to use this but without exposing us to risk.

Styling consistency

Fix styling globally, esp. tab and line spacing.