Building an LED Fire Lantern Using a Raspberry Pi

In this article, I will explain step-by-step how to build a beautiful LED fire lantern with a Raspberry Pi, an LED Matrix and some code.

Why? So finally I bought this RGB LED Matrix and I wanted to create something awesome with it.
After it became clear that for our amateur theater we needed a medieval lantern, which was supposed to go out by magic (or WiFi), I had found my project.

What you need

Tech stuff:

• Raspberry Pi (one of the faster models) | ~ 40 € / $ 45
• Adafruit 64x32 RGB LED Matrix 4mm Pitch | ~ 35 € / $ 40
• Adafruit RGB Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi | ~ 13,20 € / $ 15
• LEICKE AC Adapter NT30538 (or similar) | ~ 36 € / $ 41
  (Output: 5V, 10 A = 50 W)

For the case:

• Raspberry Pi case, which you can combine with the RGB Matrix Bonnet.
  ~ 12 € / $ 14