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| jarrin > Interests > Electronics > Embrace the Light | |
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| Embrace the Light |
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| Some friend and I threw an all-night warehouse psytrance party recently and I wanted to build a large-scale light display. Also: last year I mostly built a mutant vehicle for Burning Man. Part of that process required me to purchase ~40 twenty watt, two foot fluorescent bulbs (and fixtures). Since I had them lying around I decided to do something with them. The plan, then, was to mount as many of these bulbs as possible onto one of the walls of the warehouse in a hexagonal pattern - and then program a microcontroller to cycle through various patterns. Ultimately it was successful. Read on for technical details and notes about what I learned along the way. |
| Post-Mortem 2/19/2007 7:15 PM Success & failure. Thoughts for next time. |
| Party! 2/17/2007 7:30 PM ...and then we a party! |
| Final Installation 2/17/2007 7:15 PM Final assembly was time-consuming but otherwise straight-forward. |
| Microcontroller and Relay Strip 2/16/2007 7:00 PM I needed to program a microcontroller to make it all go. I also needed some relays to switch the high-voltage lights. It was pretty straightforward. |
| Backing 2/11/2007 6:39 PM Since I couldn't get into the space ahead of time and simply screw the light fixtures into the wall I had to devise some way of easily and quickly mounting all 35 fixtures vertically. A trip to the hardware store gave me the answer: snow fence. |