/ambilight

An Arduino project to provide responsive lighting for the wall behind your monitor.

Primary LanguageC++GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

ambilight

An Arduino project to provide responsive lighting for the wall behind your monitor.

Reads screen data, processes pixel color information, then transmits over USB to the Arduino, which drives an addressable LED strip.

Yes, the code is a mess.

Credits

Serial code

Arduino, https://playground.arduino.cc/Interfacing/CPPWindows

DXGI code

Pavel Gurenko, http://www.pavelgurenko.com/2013/12/dxgi-outputs-enumeration-and-fast.html, MIT License.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Pavel Gurenko

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Arduino code

Cory "paganini24" Malantonio, https://gist.github.com/paganini24/42fdb162a32904a4e8b8d2cba6d86368