Daniel Shiffman has been hacking a Color Kinetics LED tile and documenting the process.

By packet sniffing the data from Color Kinetics software to the tile enabled Daniel to figure out how it worked. He has now 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.

I imagine that the Color Kinetics software and hardware is closed source, so I hope that if they see this work they will encourage such use of their products.

Video 1, Video 2, Video 3 (requires latest Quicktime player). Photos on Flickr.

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