Dreamachine

a flashy-light trippy thing

The plan is to make a personal version of the Dreamachine, a "stroboscopic flickering light art device that produces eidetic visual stimuli".

Code

• GitHub Repository
• Doxygen code docs

Design Docs

• Requirements - nearest thing to a design doc
• Components - nearest thing to a BOM
• Wiring - nearest thing to a schematic

Blog Posts

• Dreamachine #1 : Background
• Dreamachine #2 : Pink Noise
• Dreamachine #3 : Progress

Videos

• Dreamachine latest (very short demo, 2022-09-01)

See Also

• Dreamachine on Wikipedia
• dreamachine.world - Unboxed (Festival of Brexit) Show
• Dreamachine, the psychedelic contraption hoping to blow British minds - Guardian review of ^^^

Previous Status

2022-08-12 The hardware, except for audio-related, is assembled and tested. I've a reasonable plan for functionality, see requirements.md. I've got the skeleton of software together with basic interfaces for the LED lights, rotary encoders and display. I wasn't happy with an off-the shelf rotary encoder library so I've been rewriting that : Esp32RotaryEncoder. That still needs a bit of work but is basically working, good enough to proceed.

Detailed status is in devlog.md.