Glow Output & Lighting
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The glow module output has an interface that makes controlling everything from static LED colors to interactive light shows into an easy, no-code experience.
Here are the steps to exploring the glow interface:
Navigate to the glow output page by pressing on "outputs" in the equation menu and selecting "Glow." You will see the page displayed in image I below. The "1 to 6" determines the number of pixels that are in the pattern segment you are programming. As a basic glow module has 6 LED pixels, 1 to 6 will control all of them.
To control only half of them, and set the other half to a different color / pattern / brightness, you can press the "+" icon above the color segments to add a new one, as shown in figure II. To edit which pixels are covered by each segment, tap directly on the numbers and type in the number you would like to change it to. You will notice that at the top of the screen there is a visual representation of what the LED chain will look like.
To edit a segment, tap on the palette icon on the top right corner of the segment bar to open the menu shown in image III. The default pattern is "color," which is a static color for the LED. There are 3 properties you can adjust, from top to bottom: color, contrast, and brightness.
Once you have designed your desired color output, press the "add glow" button at the bottom of the screen to add it to your equation. The app will auto-generate a name for the color.
Set to: You will also notice that next to each of these properties is a little icon with two dots, one filled in and one not filled in. Each of these will open the "set to" menu shown in image IV, which will allow you to set any of these properties to a fixed value or to a dynamic variable. For example, you could set color to red using the slider shown in image III and then set the brightness equal to the proximity module using the "set to" button to create something that gets brighter as people get nearer to it.
Go further with pre-established glow patterns: Fade, Dot, Arc, Rainbow, Glitter... In addition, you can use sequences to make your very own glow patterns.
