{"id":64,"date":"2015-10-07T22:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:33:18","slug":"painting-with-light-too-much-time-on-my-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/painting-with-light-too-much-time-on-my-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Light := too much time on my hands ??"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"light painting Alex's seat\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board-624x418.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board-900x602.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Als-seat-circuit-board.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">light painting Alex&#8217;s seat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Something&#8217;s just catch my imagination&#8230;daily \ud83d\ude42 well actually constantly.<br \/>\nI came across this fun project a while ago and put it onto the list of TO (DO) play .<br \/>\nWhile building some race car emulators I noticed the LED strips had dropped in price so the time was right and one was ordered. a spare Raspi was enlisted and 1 hour later I had something working.<br \/>\nThen it just \u00a0waited on the bench while teasing me while I did the more important things.<br \/>\ntoday I finished it, added some buttons and stuck it on a strip.<br \/>\nthen zapped the SD card with a power spike. restarted the build again and now its working.<br \/>\nI have put it out to the family and friend for ideas. tonight we will have a go. And see what painting with light can bring.<br \/>\nso with a cost of \u00a330 GBP and a couple of bd minutes fun will be upon us.<\/p>\n<p>with thanks to Gavin for the inspiration\u00a0 although having to learn a new programming language PYTHON was a bit of pain and it appears to be irrelevant..<\/p>\n<p>PYTHON why? \u00a0what&#8217;s it do better than other alternatives?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mechatronics LightScythe\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mechatronicsguy\/lightscythe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/mechatronicsguy\/lightscythe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something&#8217;s just catch my imagination&#8230;daily \ud83d\ude42 well actually constantly. I came across this fun project a while ago and put it onto the list of TO (DO) play . While&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}