No Fireworks? Pixel Stick can make your Diwali lit

Every year, during the first week of November in India, a native or a passing tourist will have no choice but to notice thousands of lights and lamps hanging from every building. Loud, beautiful fireworks fill the air. All of the lights and festivities are an indicator that Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, has begun. Diwali celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil. During this period houses are decorated with oil lamps, and fireworks are set off.

Now that I live in Illinois, the lighting and viewing fireworks is not so easy to attain. Lighting oil lamps is infeasible and the streets do not fill with light during the first week of November. Because of this (and (maybe) a little bit of homesickness), I decided to create a PixelStick. This device will essentially become a paintbrush of light using a combination of LED lights and high-exposure, low-aperture photos. Some lights on the strip will light up a certain way while others may remain turned off, revealing a pattern emulating this photo (much like pixels on a television screen). My PixelStick is engaged through movement and was programmed using Circuit Python.

Go PixelStick! (until I get my Pyro permit)