This is my first instructable! Please bear with me while I struggle to write proper English. Feel free to correct me! I started this project just after the 'Let it glow' competition started. I wish I had made much more and finished what I wanted to make. But between school and work, I haven't had as much time left as I wished. Nevertheless, I leave here a report of my experiments as an instructable, so anyone can try and make what I did. This instructable is not meant to serve as a guide and teach how to make this contraption. It isn't a guide for the beginners in electronics. It is more like sharing one idea and objective that I wish to pursue. If you are a beginner/complete ignorant in electronics and wish to make something like this, I'm sorry! But we can try always help you. See the last step. We have already seen many ambient light projects. Most of them use RGB LEDs: - To illuminate a room with one color, setting an atmosphere to match your mood - To create light effects from colour of TV/Monitor or from audio. There are even a few in instructables.com Related: DIY Ambient Light Systems Light Bar Ambient Lighting Building your own ambient color lighting bars Using this competition as an excuse, I started a project that has been on my mind for a while. I've always wanted make something similar to these ambient lights and fill the walls in my room with RGB LEDs. But, taking it a step further, making all and each one of them controllable. This project will hopefully result on an open-source electronics kit for hobbyists and electronic tinkerers, allowing hardware/software hacking and sensory integration. Here is a small preview of what I made:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Interactive-Ambient-Light/