Was thinking of a cool idea... then came up with another!

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So I've purchased a Raspberry Pi a while back and have been trying to think of an awesome idea for the project.  Kind of wanted to do something Amiga related, but not sure what.  And also to do something a bit more electronically inclined.

Then it dawned on me, one thing I missed about the Atari Jaguar was the Virtual Light Machine, so I went about looking into making a laser light show with the Pi.  So in looking for the hardware to do it, I found these RGB LED strips, and in one post someone was saying they didn't really need it to control the full 4096 colors... then it really hit me... Why not do a Light show with RGB LED strips of Amiga Demos!

Depending on the speed of the control of the strips, how awesome would it be to do something like the spaceballs demo on a wall covered in strips of RBG LEDs.  Not sure how feasible the project is, but I think it'd be epic!

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Thinking particularly of something like this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c7GbKRInPFE

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http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_OctoWS2811.html

Now THAT is what I'm talking about!!

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Couldn't we, in essence, take the RGB port of our beloved Amigas and create a new display this way?  

Like a large LED filled wall to use the Amiga on?  I'm assuming it'd only be good for games / demos.  Desktop usage would stink, obviously.  Scanlines would be the norm here!  Seems the project that bloodline linked uses the serial port for outputting the video, whereas the RGB output would just be straight RGB signals.  Basically it'd work just like a monitor.  

Just thinking out loud here.

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