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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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Mate Light
==========
-.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/SzVinml.jpg
+.. figure:: ./pics/heise-make-32c3-1-small.jpg
+ :target: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/32C3-Diese-Maker-Projekte-gab-es-auf-dem-Chaos-Communication-Congress-zu-sehen-3057100.html&hg=1&hgi=9&hgf=true
+ :align: center
+ :alt: A matelight at 32C3. Foto: Rebecca Husemann / Make Magazin.
+
+ Foto: Rebecca Husemann / Make Magazin. `Link`_
Transform a bunch of empty mate crates to a huge display using a 15 year old laptop, a 13US$ microcontroller board and a couple of cheap chinese christmas lights.
@@ -9,6 +14,15 @@ Hardware Setup
--------------
Each bottle contains a LED with a WS2801 driver. Each crate contains a chain of 20 LEDs with a 9 pin SUB-D connector. A wiring harness connects 8 crates in series to a TI Stellaris Launchpad. The Launchpad has four hardware SPI interfaces which can control one wiring harness each. The controller board is connected to a ThinkPad T22 running the control program via USB.
+.. figure:: ./pics/heise-make-32c3-2-3-small.jpg
+ :target: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/32C3-Diese-Maker-Projekte-gab-es-auf-dem-Chaos-Communication-Congress-zu-sehen-3057100.html&hg=1&hgi=10&hgf=true
+ :align: center
+ :alt: matelight detail. Foto: Rebecca Husemann / Make Magazin.
+
+ Foto: Rebecca Husemann / Make Magazin. `Link`_
+
+.. _`Link`: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/32C3-Diese-Maker-Projekte-gab-es-auf-dem-Chaos-Communication-Congress-zu-sehen-3057100.html
+
1. Take a mate bottle and wrap it in aluminum foil
2. Poke a 12mm hole in the lid
3. Put it in a crate
@@ -16,7 +30,7 @@ Each bottle contains a LED with a WS2801 driver. Each crate contains a chain of
5. Stick a loop of LEDs through the lids of the bottles
6. Repeat from step 1
7. Stack up a bunch of these crates and tie them together with zip ties and straps
-8. Connect the wiring harness to the LED loops and the control board
+8. Connect all the wires together (mis-)using wonderful XLR connectors
9. ???
10. PROFIT!!
@@ -104,3 +118,4 @@ As featured on…
.. _`A Unity 3D backend`: http://firepunchd.tumblr.com/post/123631124063/every-pixel-is-sacred-on-a-40x16-display-you-have
.. _`Advanced Conway's Game of Life`: https://github.com/vileda/golGL
.. _`How to CRAP in bash because nc is for noobs`: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0299b536dabd8ee59529
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+heise-make-*.jpg: Copyright 2016 Rebecca Husemann / Make Magazin All rights reserved. Please respect this when working on a clone of this repository.
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