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circuit diagram for the volcano controller

2017-02-24Props5 comments

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 5: Smoke & Lights

Back to the good stuff — smoke and lights! Now that I have (almost) all of the decor in place, I can see how the lights will play…

2017-02-22Props2 comments

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 4: Shelves, Trim & Decor

Now that the walls are covered, the next step is the shelves and trim. There’s already some bamboo molding, but we’ve also got some carved tiki trim in…

three rows of bamboo trim covering the brown walls in the entire space

2017-02-20Props1 comment

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 3: Paint, Reed & Bamboo

As noted in the last update, I got the NeoPixel RGB LEDs working with the Raspberry Pi. I then cut the long NeoPixel strand into strips and glued…

Animated colored LEDs illuminate smoke coming from a volcano-shaped tiki mug

2017-02-18Props5 comments

Kilauea Cove: Raspberry Pi-controlled Active Volcano!

Since the last Kilauea Cove update, there have been a lot of updates to the Cove, and the Raspberry Pi-controlled volcano feature is now active in my basement…

Circuit diagram showing NeoPixel control from Raspberry Pi

2016-02-27Props2 comments

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 2: Raspberry Pi LED Control

I’m controlling everything in this project with a Raspberry Pi 2, a system on a chip. Essentially it’s a really tiny Linux computer that you can use for…

The tiki nook with controllable LED pixels

2016-02-22Props4 comments

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 1

I’m gonna build a volcano. Movies are a huge passion in my life, so of course I have a screening room (which most other people would probably call…