MacLight: Ambient Arduino Lighting For Your Mac

I wonder if this scales up to extra-large screens.

I've got a 120+" projector screen that I use via Mac & Plex. I'd love to mount some LEDs behind the screen.

Guess we'll have to wait for GitHub to come back online before checking out the specs.

Hi, I made this. Just so you don't get your hopes up, this hasn't been 'released' as such, it was made to work for me as a learning project. That said, if there's interest I'll tidy it up and post a tutorial.

GitHub only contains a Mac application and an Arduino sketch. Both of those will be fine with your screen. Hardware-wise I've used a ULN2003 array (very simple and inexpensive chip) to power the LEDs from the Arduino. You should be able to do the same as I did, but just with more LEDs.

I'd love to see a parts-list and build instructions (for dummies).

Why isn't this a commercial product?

The ambilight "technology" is patented by Philips.

Perhaps we should push for patents to be thrown out when they're so trivial that someone can build the apparatus for <$100 in arduino-parts...

http://www.philips.co.uk/c/televisions/33092/cat/#/overview