cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoHow do Hue Bulbs do millions of different colors, what sorcery is this?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up127
arrow-up127message-squareHow do Hue Bulbs do millions of different colors, what sorcery is this?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareUsernameblankface@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoYeah, essentially the same sourcery behind every pixel of any modern display. The bulb is one pixel. So… Wait… Does this mean thousands of Hue bulbs can be a display screen? Has this been done?
minus-squareKptnAutismus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agothose really huge displays are often millions of individual RGB LEDs. it would just be a software nightmare to do with hue bulbs.
minus-squareHyperlon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoIf they were hardwired yes, but zigbee with millions of bulbs?
minus-squareconciselyverbose@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoI’m guessing you’d hit interference at some point. But also latency would be bad and you almost definitely couldn’t synchronize them well.
minus-squareHyperlon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoYeah, I’ve done something similar with ~120 wifi bulbs for a light show that responded to music and that worked fairly well but I doubt it would have worked with more than a few hundred.
Yeah, essentially the same sourcery behind every pixel of any modern display. The bulb is one pixel.
So… Wait… Does this mean thousands of Hue bulbs can be a display screen? Has this been done?
those really huge displays are often millions of individual RGB LEDs. it would just be a software nightmare to do with hue bulbs.
If they were hardwired yes, but zigbee with millions of bulbs?
I’m guessing you’d hit interference at some point.
But also latency would be bad and you almost definitely couldn’t synchronize them well.
Yeah, I’ve done something similar with ~120 wifi bulbs for a light show that responded to music and that worked fairly well but I doubt it would have worked with more than a few hundred.