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I have a question about spinning led's?
I want to make a spinning RGB led ball like the one from youtube, Look it up its pretty cool, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to make one and the guy REFUSES to give out instructions, All I know is that he used a green, red, and blue led. Motors, And "9 slip contacts" so it would all be able to spin and still have power. I have no idea how to make that
I have two VCR heads, idk if they will help at all but I hear its kinda the same idea.
Id also like to control motor speed/led's with my arduino if possible. And maybe program it to do a light show? Idk. but Id love some feedback.
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8 years ago
Depending on the design, it uses persistence of vision as a line of leds spins -- the slip rings are the obvious point of failure -- so its common to have the microcontroller on board the spinning part, and only transmit electricity to the moving circuit then calculate the flashing patterns once spinning.
Answer 8 years ago
examples
Answer 8 years ago
Im not looking to make a POV display.
I want to make This. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an7OmF_9izU
Answer 8 years ago
just to be on the same page, even though it doesn't display a picture of sorts, its still a POV display.
just motors and frames -- what's so hard that you can't reverse engineer it?
Answer 8 years ago
I have no idea how to make slip rings, or to make any of it frankly :/
Answer 8 years ago
A 1/4 inch stereo jack plug and socket will give you 3 connections - Fix the socket so the plug is vertical and attach your LEDs to the plug.
The socket acts like a set of slip rings.