Friday, October 15, 2010

How About Some Flashy Lights? Intro

Hokey? Maybe :-) But I wanted to see what LED's would look like behind the Dixie's head.

I'll tell you what I've discovered ASAP. For now, here's some photos:

These either all blink on/off together or stay on steady.

There are 20 lights (RGB & Yellow) -- the yellow ones do not show up as well as the others.

The pattern appearing on the head is the different textures of the head.
Here is this same light set with the lights blinking. The sound is not the lights -- they're silent. Someone else is typing away on a keyboard in the background.
Note that the video can make the flashing lights appear to turn off/on slightly out of perfect sync from one another. They don't. That's a video artifact from the iPhone camera operation. This is my wife's instrument and those are angels on the inside of the head. The lights are not as bright as they appear here. They look much better in "real life."


I do not know why this video got interpreted so that the video is sideways from what I intended, but it gets the idea across. This is 10 sequenced lights that chase one another. Again RGB and Yellow. The problem with this light set is that it cannot be turned steady on. That would be nice. Still, the lights chasing certainly makes for an attention getter (but it could get old quickly, too).

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