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In development => Project development, ideas, and suggestions => Topic started by: charliex on January 28, 2012, 08:54:46 pm

Title: blinky ball
Post by: charliex on January 28, 2012, 08:54:46 pm
ever since that russian guy posted the blinky ball on HAD we've been jealous of it., but no more :)


added a mic, bluetooth , accelerometer and a cool new rechargeable battery, its a bitch to put together though..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51925658@N ... hotostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51925658@N08/6774873829/in/photostream)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51925658@N ... otostream/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51925658@N08/6774862453/in/photostream/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51925658@N ... otostream/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51925658@N08/6769648013/in/photostream/)

its also hard to take video of  :)

cheers
charliex
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: charliex on January 31, 2012, 08:43:19 pm
https://plus.google.com/photos/10359703 ... Pr8tKSYhwE (https://plus.google.com/photos/103597034352682332839/albums/5703883407096891505/5703883411186248578?authkey=CKbWrPr8tKSYhwE)

made a better video.

its made up of one control slice, and the other 15 are the same they're all linked together with TLC's. There is a mic input and bluetooth control.
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: ian on February 01, 2012, 08:43:42 am
Very cool animations. It looks like assembly was crazy!
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: bearmos on February 01, 2012, 08:53:28 pm
that's a LOT of LED's, very nicely done! the animations are great.
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: charliex on February 03, 2012, 05:56:27 am
it was crazy!

people are building them around me as i type this, lots of swearing going on :)
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: Sjaak on February 03, 2012, 10:36:04 am
Great build!

Did you follow the instructions the russian guy posted or did you design your own version?
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: charliex on February 03, 2012, 06:51:08 pm
designed it from scratch, the Russian one uses a lot more components and less leds ( if i recall correctly ), he had shifts+drivers separate.
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: charliex on February 11, 2012, 05:28:11 pm
threw it on kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha ... linky-ball (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charliex/blinky-ball)
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: bearmos on February 11, 2012, 08:25:29 pm
good luck!
Title: Re: blinky ball
Post by: charliex on February 12, 2012, 01:34:45 am
thanks!

i hope we see loads of em running around
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