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| BlinkenMoon | |
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| Interactive joy component for controling flow by controlling the moon (or a moon at least). | |
| Contact | AlexDD |
| People | AlexDD |
| Village | Pentagon |
As they mystic moon dances with earth it brings upon the tides: the ebb ..... and the flow.
To control the moon is to control the flow.
BlinkenMoon will contribute a joy, toy and fun component for Project Flow Control. And yes, it will have blinking LEDs!
YouTube links: Video 1 - Video 2 - Video 3
Unfortunately controlling by laser pointer doesn't work that well, as the residual light level here at the Pentagon Village is way to high. So it's a bit erratic sometimes, but there still is a correlation with laserpointer hits.
And... Thank You for the kind feedback!
During day the balloon has to stay down due to strong winds
Tech Facts:
- ATMEL 328P microcontroller
- Edixeon HighPower RGB LED
- Efficient 3 channel buck-boost-converter (desing from http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Konstantstromquelle_fuer_Power_LED)
- RGB and brightness sensors
- some PWM and color fading code from Fnordlicht http://www.lochraster.org/fnordlicht/
- LCD control display schematics and code (pimped for larger 3410 display) from MicroSyl http://www.microsyl.com/index.php/2010/03/24/nokia-lcd-library/
- 120cm diameter Ballon, Helium by Hornbach :-)
- weigt of light unit approx 160g
Electronics assembly completed ;-)
