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Arbalet is an ARduino-BAsed LED Table, a plane 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!
Below are some pictures and apps already developed:
- General view of the table with lights effects
- Lights Hero, clone of Guitar Hero based on Frets On Fire
- A Musical spectrum analyser
- Video of the traditional Tetris game
The project has just started and is looking for beta-testers and passionate makers, to keep in touch: 
Arbalet is organized around 3 git repositories:
- Arbasdk is the Python SDK allowing to communicate with the table as well as simulate it. Your applications with rely on this SDK.
- Arbapps is the root of your Arbalet workspace. It must contain all applications using the Arbalet SDK. It comes with a set of existing applications but feel free to develop your own!
- Arbadoc contains documentation, assembly instructions and pictures.
If you want to contribute you should fork the 3 of them and git clone your own fork so that you can directly submit pull requests on the official repos. See help about forks.
This the Arbalet wiki, the documentation will be concentrated here and should be fully written before the summer!
Preliminary notice: Please consider that Arbalet is not a finite product, it's under development and surely contains bugs and issues for which you are very welcome to participate. The SDK API is not yet fully documented nor stable.
- Home (you're there)
- Arbalet usages
- Hardware and Software overview
- Build your own
- Software tutorials
- Help, community and support
- Frequently Asked Questions
See also...
- TODO list: Known bugs, future improvements and features
- Ideas of applications: You want to code your own app but need inspiration
- Projets d'amélioration (french page): Projects for students or makers