Water Cubed

[Eclecticos]

Found these at Sparkfun.Com
BlinkM - I2C Controlled Programmable RGB LEDs.

BlinkMs are Programmable! With ThingMs sequencer software, you can create
a mix of colors with different time slices, upload that sequence to the Blink, and then let it rip.

They also have the BlinkM MaxM - I2C Controlled RGB LEDs.
MaxM Master runs our unique firmware that creates virtually any RGB color,
fades smoothly between two colors, and blinks in virtually any pattern.

Not sure if these are what you need or not. That is the best I could find.

[Vital]

Maybe a good way to go about creating the shell would be creating a mold, and using clear plastic. To create Lens basically. And spread those all around in different directions, with LED arrays underneath them.

[The boy 4rm oz]

That's a great find Eclec.

[rendermandan]

Perhaps you should get onto rendermandan, he is pretty good with LEDs and his mate is good with everything electronic lol.

You could use someting like my xps ground effects controller. Send me a PM.


Oh, yeah. Congrats on getting featured.... Sure wish Dark Carbon was, (hint, hint)... LOL

[The boy 4rm oz]

Oh, yeah. Congrats on getting featured.... Sure wish Dark Carbon was, (hint, hint)... LOL

I'm sure you will get there

[jdbnsn]

Those were some great suggestions Eck, I looked into them. The problem with the LED Mag issue was that it was only talking about the lighting of the actual water cube which didn't help me much, unless I'd like it to be brighter than the sun. The other BlinkM's are interesting, but they look a bit bright for my application. Plus they are out of stock, and expensive. But essentially that is what I am wanting to produce, just with my own two hands and for less money. The closest lead I have found is something called a "Peggy" which actually posts the blueprints online for free. I'm just not sure about the multicolor and how hard it would be to build. But it's a start. Any more ideas?

[Mach]

Wow! Absolutely stellar work Jon.

On the LED front, my old stand by is phidgets who have a 64 LED controller. On another thought, what about ps1 screens(can you still ebay these?) or similar lcds instead of leds?

http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=1030

On the water cube effect, have you seen illusion film from Tap Plastic.

It's holographic and available in blue serpentine or clear honeycomb pattern. I have a sample from Maker Faire somewhere. Pictures on the web don't do it justice as the effect is fairly trippy. Here's the link: http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=451& I can't recall how transparent it was. If I find the sample, I'll post video.

[The boy 4rm oz]

That's pretty cool stuff Mach.

[Mach]

Yeah, I need to find the piece of it that I have.

On the point of the PSone screen, here's what I was remembering when I mentioned it



There's also this:

http://hehe.org.free.fr/hehe/lightBrix/index.html

[jdbnsn]

Thanks for the input Mach! I'm not sure i understand that video though, I thought a PSone was a handheld game. Anyway, I definitely want LED's in a controllable array. The Peggy board is almost perfect. If I could figure out how to broaden the array a bit and then convert a 2D array into one with 4 walls that seam together at the edges I'd be exactly where I want to be. That material you pointed out is very slick, but I have already picked out some acrylic that I plan to use to make the "bubbles". It's getting the light show to work that is killing me.