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:

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

Arbapps (Arbalet applications) is your workspace for all Arbalet applications. This repository already contains a set of basic applications written in Python, feel free to fork it, improve them and add your custom programs.

Arbalet comes with these apps:

• Bounces are bouncing balls propelled by physical interaction with hand gestures thanks to a LeapMotion controller.
• ColorDemonstrator shows nice light effets on your Arbalet table. It comes with an initial set of 6 effects: Blue flashing to white, African style, turquoise/chocolate, pink/blue, warm colors, and whole color wheel.
• ImageReader is a GIF renderer. It will stretch the frames to fit the whole table so it may distort the original image.
• LightsHero is a GuitarHero-like game playable with the keys F1 to F5 of a keyboard to be holded... like a guitarist does. It's compatible with frets-on-fire songs.
• Pixeliser reads any video in input and reduces dramatically its resolution to play it on the table. You won't be able to watch a movie for sure, but this is a simple way to create nice light effects with... nice input videos.
• SpectrumAnalyser is an offline music spectrum analyzer. It reads a WAVE file, plays it and displays the spectrum computed in realtime.
• Tetris is... a Tetris! Playable with a joystick or a keyboard.
• TimeClock is a very simple time clock, currently only suited for tables of size 15x10

Meta-applications:

• Arbaloop is an application sequencer. Mainly written for demonstration purposes it starts Arbalet applications automatically and switch to a new one after a while or after the user asked to change.
• Arbaserver is a server allowing to share hardware between several clients over the network
• Arbasnap is a bridge for the Snap! visual programming language. (see the quick start for with Snap!)

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must download and install the Arbalet SDK before running any of these applications, otherwise you will raise an ImportError.