Light Together

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  "A light in the dark"

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  I feel better already

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  Simple, industrial and innovative design

Inspiration

Many a lonely night has been spent during this trying year, we want to bring people together, no matter the distance between them.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”

What it does

A revolutionary real time synchronous LED system built on state of the art hardware (although we could use a new arduino). Just click the button and your friend will know you're thinking about them. We use a low level network api to ensure minimal latency so you feel like your friend is in your room, shining a light on you :)

How we built it

Wires + electricity + python + voodoo magic (wifi)

Challenges we ran into

Pressing Q still doesn't quit the server :/

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Coming up with a truly unique and innovative idea and executing it flawlessly.

What we learned

How sockets work. How to use a breadboard. How to change people's lives.

What's next for Light Together

The future is bright for the project (oo baby another pun). As of tomorrow we'll be 5 investor calls deep, my mum is pretty interested ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Built With

• genius
• python
• raspberry-pi
• socket