In this project, I wanted to put my old LED strip to use, so I designed a sky simulation system.

 

The Arduino that I attached to the strip works in the following way:

   1 - Connect to the home Wifi network

   2 - Fetch the current time of day and

         date from a server

   3 - Calculated the present day's sunset

         and sunrise times

   4 - Figure out what the "sky" looks like

         (sun/moon placements, colors, turbulence)

   5 - Display the sky and continue updating

         it at around 30 FPS

 

Getting this project together was a little involved as the strip needs 15amps at 5v, but I was able to find a power source online,

and Ghassan helped a lot with the circuit design.

 

In the end, it looks pretty good to me, and I can see a lot of changes I still wanna make, so whenever I feel like it,

I will be updating the program to make it more dynamic, more optimized, and more good-looking!