Lucas Berbesson created this nifty homemade PixelStick, and he was kind enough to share the instructions, too.
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The pixelstick is an ADRESSABLE RGB LED STRIP controlled by an Arduino that can display all sorts of animations to make awesome lightpaintings photographs.
Each LED acts like a pixel on a screen, displaying an image one vertical line at a time as you walk. These vertical lines, when captured by a long exposure photography, combine to recreate your image in mid air, leaving the person using it invisible. This technique is also called lightpaintings.
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• DIY Pixelstick with image processing (YouTube / La Fabrique DIY)