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Aug 6, 2016 29 min

Using printed circuit boards to make snowflakes. (emf16)

from Chaos Computer Club - Electromagnetic Field 2016 (mp3) Hosted by MIke Harrison

The construction and programming techniques used to make a huge-scale lighting installation, with 84,000 LEDs, 25,000 PCBs and 14,000 PIC microcontrollers. Printed circuit boards were used as mechanical structure and electrical interconnection to make large but lightweight illuminated snowflake shapes. This installation was built as part of a Christmas lighting feature in a Hong Kong shopping mall in 2015 about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule.frab

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