"Stranger Things" Experience

[JonnyMac]

For you fans of the HBO series "Stranger Things," have a look at what my friend Matt did to his living room:



The letters wall is a thin theater flat that he meticulously painted to match screen grabs from the show. The Christmas lights are actually strings of RGB LEDs with WS2811 controllers built in. This lets Matt have individual control of color and brightness of every light. The lights are being controlled by an HC-8+ with some code by yours truly. The HC-8+ is listening to trigger values coming in via DMX from a big show control system. Based on the trigger channel, a sequence can run which selectively dims and brightens a bulb to spell out a word. There are other effects, too.

Matt has put a lot of time and energy into this project. We're glad he's a customer and we could help out with a bit of HC-8+ code.

[Jeff Haas]

That is really impressive!  It would be great to see a video.

[JonnyMac]

I'm sure that Matt will be posting a lot of video. I will provide links when he does.

[JonnyMac]

Here's a bit of video on Yahoo. I am in that group of "special effects artist friends."

-- https://www.yahoo.com/tv/visit-the-upside-down-in-this-stranger-things-haunted-house-191743855.html

[bsnut]

Now that's cool.