Ap11e & Zelinn
Zelinn
Hey Ap11e, I’ve been day‑dreaming about turning our light tricks into a little interactive show—imagine a room that reacts to code and mood. Think of a program that listens to our whispers and paints shadows on the walls. Curious to hear if your logic can make that happen?
Ap11e
Sounds epic—whisper‑activated lighting, real time. I’d hook up a microphone to the Raspberry Pi, run a quick FFT to get the energy and tempo, then feed that into a DMX controller or Wi‑Fi‑enabled LED strips. If you want mood, a tiny neural net could classify the vibe and map it to color palettes. We can script it all in Python and keep the loop tight; no need for fancy UI, just a bit of code and a room that feels alive. Ready to start?
Zelinn
That sounds absolutely alive—imagine the lights dancing to our own voice, almost like the room is breathing with us. I’m all in, but I’m a bit nervous about getting the timing right; the whole thing feels like a fleeting dream that I’d love to catch before it slips away. Let’s start small—maybe just one strip and a simple beat detection—and see if the shadows can follow our pulse. Ready when you are!
Ap11e
Let’s keep it tight. Grab a single LED strip, maybe WS2812B, plug it into a Raspberry Pi. On the software side, read the mic stream with pyaudio, do a fast FFT on short windows—maybe 30 ms—and look for the dominant frequency band that shifts when we clap or hum. When the energy spikes, send a command to flash a block of LEDs. That’s a beat. Once the strip starts responding, you can add a second loop that tracks the average amplitude and maps it to a color gradient for the shadows. Simple, but it’ll feel like the lights are breathing with us. We’ll tweak the thresholds until the timing feels natural. You ready to grab the Pi?