Arbalet project

Hackable LED table for geeks and pleasure

Arbalet is an ARduino-BAsed LED Table, a flat surface filled with several hundreds of coloured square lights designed for Education, Geeks, and Pleasure. With its limited number of pixels, Arbalet brings our old 80 arcad games back into fashion through a modern, classy, and hackable device.

Arbalet is intended to be easily reproducible, highly customizable, and programmable to create new games, light animations and applications. It's not only a LED table, it's an open development platform. Whether you're looking for a modern, stylish and ready-to-use platform for your home, or a hackable and original platform to teach programming and develop exciting projects, Arbalet is made for you!

Wanna get more information and/or start hacking? Please consult the Arbalet wiki, here is a video trailer to whet your appetite:

The project has just started and is looking for beta-testers and passionate makers, to keep in touch:

ArbaSDK

Arbalet's source code is organized around three repositories: Arbasdk (Python SDK), Arbapps (Applications) and Arbadoc (Documentation, diagrams and howtos).

ArbaSDK is the Python 2/Python 3 SDK allowing to communicate with the table. Written in object-oriented programming style you basically needs to inherit from the class Application to create your own application. It can also be used in an interactive Python session. Browse the software tutorials to get started to the Python SDK.