Welcome LED Head! diplomod
if that is the case if ur yelling the amplitude would be high and if your happy the color would be yellow. if ur speaking softly and ur upset the amplitude would be low and the would be red. something of that sort. Good question though. Classic
Hey, I just wanted to tell you that you give great feedback. All of your comments are on point. Good Job! Classic
and another profile pic! Smiling as well - so it\'s true creativity makes happy ;) diplomod
Always! I have found that creative people for the most part are a happy bunch. That was an outside in the warm spring cooking picture. Cooking is my other passion. LED Head
Hello LED Head, Thanks for your advice about the LED Magazine article. I allready downloaded the pdf and will read it. Thanks!! burk
Wow, really? Its not out yet is it or are they just exploring the ideas of it? Classic
LED Head, why don´t you have a name OLED Head :)? durica
I have been following the OLED thing Durica and I recommend ledsmagazine, led-professional.com and ledjournal.com if you are interested in seeing what is happening. OLED\'s are really coming along! You have some great ideas that fit in really nice with that technology. LED Head
That\'s an idea!
I do like the futuristic chess board
Kings Knight 1 to kings rook 3
Thanks... scottfisher
ha ha.... any way it would be helpful for your teachers to find out whether you are active or not...so you cant cheat them telling that you understood the concept. pavithrabvs
Thanks for the link LED Head
Thanks for your input! I didnt know photon boards, very cool. Love the pictures. However, my idea is quite different cause it is a flexible, movable light and not build in like the photon boards. So my idea can potentially be extended to other boarding and rolling devices. Not to mention the whole context of my idea and all the potential implementations I described go way beyond that. Read through my description text.
Thanks
LEDricc
LED HEAD-Congratulations!! pavithrabvs
Congratulations by the deserved award. HelferDesign
Congratulations LED Head. For all the fun banter back and forth, the competition from you to push harder was welcome. I look forward to Phase 2 and the challenge of having to come up with technical solutions to rival yours. Best luck. howman
congrats and best wishes to you :) durica
Thanks to everyone for a really great level of participation, sorry for the late reply, I was on (believe it or not)a short vacation. Now I am rested and ready for Phase 2! LED Head
:Yep. Phase 2 here we come. howman
Hi! The activity counters have been reseted though the number of your evaluations and ideas are displayed from both phases. We\'ll have a note added so its clear! Thanks for the hint!! diplomod
Winning ideas have not been necessarily chosen for phase II - only chromatic ball has been chosen with some questions. Thanks for asking! diplomod
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Let me present bubble baubles, a whimsical round light designed to interact with water.
These little units use a Top Dragon style RGB LED. They can simply float on top of the water, or you can squeeze water into them for ballast and set their level higher or lower in the water. To keep costs down and to encourage human interaction, I decided not to add an active ballast pumping system.
The lowest cost model would not have an accelerometer on it. The cost of accelerometers has come way down, thanks to the Wii but there is still cost. The low cost model would just randomly change its color, but both models encourage human interaction by squeezing water in or out so you set the water level.
The higher end model has the ability to either do the same routine at the low end model, or you can set it so it is sensitive to motion. Picture any one of the following scenarios:
1. A calm pool, where the bubble baubles have settled into a nice quiet shade of blue...they are just floating on the water and then BAM! someone jumps into the pool creating a splash and towards the center of where they jumped it, the bubble baubles are red, farther out the ones that are floating are yellow, farther out green, and the one farthest away are blue still.
2. Put some of these in a fountain or in a small pond that has a fountain. Watch as the impact of the water spray changes the lights. Heck, put a few in your hot tub or Jacuzzi!
3. A simple game to play in the pool. I call it light based water polo. You get two teams and the object is to get all of the baubles on your side of the pool to the same color. So you have to run, swim, dive and grab them, shake them to the proper color and set them down. Be careful not to disturb nearby baubles so they don\'t change color. First team to get all the baubles to the same color wins!
I envision this small (about 1 inch) round sphere having a small printed circuit board, a dragon style RGB led, a coin cell battery holder, a low cost PIC microcontollers (SOT-23-6) and a low cost accelerometer. The bauble would screw together and there would be a waterproof lens to protect the electronics from the water.
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Stupendous work... These would be so much fun... also would be great for tide mapping in the ocean or in marinas etc if you put tiny transmitters on them. Just think with the right sensors, you could have hundreds of them in a public pool and if someone relieved themselves in the pool, the baubles floating near them would all glow yellow.
howman
HAHAHA! That would keep the kids (and some adults I am sure) from doing that!!! I am working on some solar cell research right now, not sure if I can get any decent amount of charge with the sphere being that small but we will see. I don\'t really like the idea of having to use a disposable battery especially lithium coin cells. I could live with rechargeables.
LED Head
Seeing how these would be bobbing in the water, there is plenty of energy to be captured there and put into rechargeable batteries.
howman
I am just not sure if I could pack all that into a 1 inch sphere, but I would love to try!
LED Head
I\'m sure you could come up with some form of wave motion energy capture device... perhaps some form of a small weight suspended between a couple light springs and magnets so as the ball bobs it generates an electric field...or perhaps something suspended in a magnetic fluid and it rotates due to an external propeller of sorts...
howman
wow nice concept... i like this!
cao_miguel
Howman - that is spot on, the problem becomes not making the sphere too big. I haven\'t tried to run the numbers on the electrical charge, but a 1 inch sphere won\'t hold a very large battery and it certainly won\'t hold a large enough \"super capacitor rated at 3 volts\". I am still struggling with trying to work out the technical aspects and keep things small. Solar at that size (1 inch) is out of the question, but I have a sneaky idea I will re-submit. It kind of hit me as a \"Why didn\'t I think of that earlier!!!\" idea.
LED Head
wowowo really nice object, and good idea!!!
complements...
paula guzman
Excellent - I envision applications for water sports such as synchronical high diving - you could measure objectively if the athletes dive into the water exactly the same moment and if so, the lights glow green (I think that is a criterion for that sport).
diplomod
I made some very rough prototypes up (no duct tape but there was crazy glue involved) and took them up to the pool at the aparments where I live. The kids all loved them, but I had to get them all back at the end of the night (because yes, just to get some responses, the prototypes used CR2032 lithium batteries and I will recycle them responsibly). The kids liked filling them with various amount of water and playing diving games.
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