After sniffing the packets to see how this color kinetics LED tile works, I created a Processing library that reads the pixels of the display window, converts them to a 12×12 matrix, and writes them out as UDP packets to the data/power supply for the LEDs. My goal is to create some interesting real-time, interactive lighting applications. Just got this working today and did two quick experiments:

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A big thank you to Shawn Van Every for solving my packet sniffing woes when I was stumped!