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MiniPOV size

Post by tinyblob »

Hi there,
I spin fire staff, and my hackerish tendencies have been screaming at me to look at combining POV with a staff, as a replacement for fire.
Bunnie Huangs awesome Kinetic Glowsticks and accompanying article really pushed me over the edge, so now i have to do it.

Now, i'm far more of a software guy than hardware. But i'm desperate to learn, and the MiniPOV kit looks like a great start, but way too thick to be implemented into a "fire staff". I figure if i replace the PCB with my own wiring, i can make this relatively thin, has anyone done this?
How easy will it be to add more LEDs?

I know these questions are very fundamental, i'm just looking for a nudge in the right direction before i jump in and start working things out :)

Thanks all!

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Post by adafruit »

if you're rewiring it, you can make it thin, but it wont be as structural without a circuit board. you can add more LEDs, up to 14... but you will have to update the code to do this which may require a little learning/work.

tinyblob
 
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Post by tinyblob »

ladyada wrote:but you will have to update the code to do this which may require a little learning/work.
I wouldn't be happy any other way! I just wanted to make sure that buying the kit was a good idea.

As for the structure, i'll come up with something :)

PS. Up to 14 additional LEDs? Or 14 in total?

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Post by mux »

I too spin firestaff (ok, not much anymore, but sometimes), and I got thinking about this earlier tonight, actually! :D

Is there such a thing as "ring"-shaped LEDs? If so, I would think that building a modified SpokePOV kit would be completely badass... 30 LED's at each end of the staff, with the wiring going up through the staff and the circuitry in the center...

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Post by tinyblob »

awesome mux.
i thought about the round leds, i've never seen any. what i thought instead was that i'd set up three banks of leds, in a triangular formation around the staff.
if you can have 16 leds in total, i imagine you could run three banks of X leds in parallel. so they'd be pulsing at the same time.
i also thought about running the circuitry back to the center, but i don't like the idea of cutting into the staff to install the microprocessor and batteries. i'm a contact staffer and the more structural changes i make, the weaker it'll be.
what i'm thinking is a replacement "wick", which screws on in the same way and is roughly the same size. that means i could probably get away with attaching AA or AAA batteries to each side of the staff. it's difficult to explain without sketches!

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