Pictured in the video above is Em.
Colour Lamp
Color Lamp (2025) is a progression of my Colour Organ (2021)
Getting to participate in Video Artist Conclave: A weekend expo of Video Synthesis and Video Artists, is what inspired the motivation of this project.
This tabletop device simplifies the core logic of one channel, one light, from the Colour Organ into a self-contained object. Built around an Arduino Uno and an MSGEQ7 seven-band filter, it uses just a handful of parts—a pre-amp, a WS2812 ring in a opaque bulb, and an SG90 micro-servo—to isolate a narrow mid-range frequency band and transform its amplitude into both light and motion. A straightforward envelope-follow algorithm delivers instant attack and smooth decay without any heavy digital signal processing, and while the motorized sway is still being tuned, the basic sound-to-light translation is good.
For me, visual schematic mapping with component images is much more intuitive for making sense of how to solder everything onto a blank PCB board.
I don't remember if this was the final version, but it can get you started.