I am very gratified to have someone volunteer to help on the LED engineering — thanks Kevin! We might need some more people to help build the LED assemblies, but its great to have someone already looking at the engineering aspects.
I only have a loose idea about what I want, but its basically a big triangle of LEDs in the middle of each side of a big pyramidal structure, and maybe some LED strips on each edge of the prism. Its vital for the thing to be well lit, for both safety (the playa is DARK!!) and to attract people.
We’ll be using addressable LED strips, so it will have lots of interesting patterns. I believe we can figure out how to drive the LEDs from my visual FX program (Resolume Arena) so they can be synced with what the user is doing and seeing on the inside. Likely use the ArtNet protocol which Resolume speaks natively — basically DMX over IP.