Introduction

Finally, we have decided to go open, after lots of work and research, AqLeds is ready, and it’s free (as in freedom). We’re publishing it under the GPL license.

• The mainboard hardware and the modular led lamps hardware, built on kicad-pcb
• The firmware, written in C
• The PC software, written in Qt C++, to setup your AqLeds.

Video

Accelerated ‘lighting’ playback of a 12h cycle (night, sunrise, day, sunset, night…).

Getting started

• Get a preassembled board

Development

Tools

• MPLAB.X + XC16 compiler
• Qt designer on the PC side for the configuration client.

DIY

• Assemble a board
• Write the PIC with the bootloader
• Write the firmware using the bootloader and the client software
• Test it
• Start using it.