Gadgetory

every night as part of vivid festival the Sydney Harbour Bridge lights up with LEDs controlled by you on the ground in the harbour cruise ships and ferries also have LED lights that change color depending on their location I'm Lexy CBDs foreseen it let's go take a closer look at the tech behind the scenes there are two thousand one meter LED tubes we have 140 high output LED cans 1.1 kilometers of fiber optic cabling we've got eight point five kilometers of six cabling three and a half kilometers of power cabling nine hundred and fifty meters of three-phase twelve distros and twenty thousand cable ties we're running about the way that we determine what color our boat goes when it's in a certain zone is we just have a simple gps chip which determines a location to within approximately 5 meters and then we have a table which simply decides which color is which for those different areas of the harbor so the go below board is a development board that's been designed by Intel and what this is it's the first x86 based processor to fit into the Arduino ecosystem the Arduino ecosystem is fantastic in terms of accessibility for beginners there's a ton of documentation out there and plenty of people have written libraries that make it really easy to use we've actually built a custom PCB that is what's called a shield on Arduino board and what that does is it provides us with a gps chip which can interface through the standard arduino input/output systems and allow us to use sort of standard libraries that already exist in terms of testing I had a few sort of odd nights where I was driving around my suburb in a car lift up five about 200 LEDs and making quite a spectacle of myself I would say you