Mood lighting array controlled by android with bluetooth

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So this is my vision.

Recipe:

Two Multicolor LED light strips (1 foot.. can be mounted as ambient lighting under a shelf, for example)
Lets call these ledArrayOne, ledArrayTwo
Two Multicolor LED lamps (mounted in containers that diffuse the light..maybe a plastic 6inch cube, for example)
Lets call these ledArrayThree and ledArrayFour

Bluetooth Arduino board with XBee addon
Four FIO Arduino boards

Web application (see attachment)

Use case:
I enter my room, and open my android app (which is connected via bluetooh) and select my desired color configuration.

The bluetooth board then sends a wireless signal over XBee to each of the individual ledArrays

http://i.imgur.com/cO57Z.png <-- image for unregistered users
http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ <-- color scheme generator
jQuery color plugin xcolor • Computer Science and Machine Learning <-- javascript color scheme generation

colorApp.png
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Sounds awesome - post some pics when you've done it.

There are a couple of other ways to do it. Use XBee modules to just control the LED strips directly (I think there's enough outputs on an xbee to be able to change an RGB LED or strip). You'd power them separately anyway and use a relay or whatever to switch it on.

Then you BT to the arduino and use an xbee coordinator to just control the remote sensors which don't need the full smarts of an arduino each.

Cheers
ajfisher

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I'm going to think about your suggestion a bit.. I've not done anything with arduino before so I'm hesitating to start purchasing stuff and jumping right in. I'm more of a software person. If I do, it will be all open source and documented.