Larry's Flight

Larry's Flight is a WiFi-enabled Art-Net LED cloud system for  Aeronaut Brewery  in Everett, MA. The title of the piece sticks with the Brewery's cloud/flying theme, originally based off the  Lawnchair Larry Flight  (that inspired the movie Up).

Both clouds are powered by an ARM Cortex-M7  Teensy 4.1  which outputs an  Art-Net  (sACN) ethernet signal, but also accepts an external signal with a higher priority. This allows any lighting designer capable of outputting sACN to override the system and sync the cloud lighting with music and stage lighting. Once they disconnect, the computer reverts back to the default animations (custom  FastLED  routines) which are controllable by the brewery staff via a react-native app that communicates over WiFi with the system using a  Particle Photon .

The clouds themselves are mainly chicken wire and polyfill held together with spray glue and a small amount of fishing line. Inside each cloud is a PVC pipe with 300 and 450  WS2812b  leds , respectively. The data signal from the main computer is converted to the required SPI signal using an  LeDMX4 PRO , and carried to the lights using Cat6 cable.