Hi all, I'm tentatively organizing a sea-monster-releated event in September, in some kind of weird coordination with the XOXO fest and it's local parasitic twin, OROR. In pursuit of this project, my genius wife Geisne has just offered to sew me a giant squid! How could I say "no" to such an offer? But I immediately thought: can we make it glow from within, to try to approximate the cool stuff a squid or octopus can do with its skin?
What's your favorite cheap/easy way to get a string of programmable RGB LEDs, 30-50 feet long, that can let us send lighting changes in a wave from one end to the other? I'd want to insert these deep inside the arms of the squid, surrounded by transluscent puffy filling inside some kind of transluscent plastic skin, so hopefully it'd diffuse nicely into a general inner glow. Then also we'd need a control/power solution for approximately ten of those arms, and some kind of software framework or library for trying to achieve the kind of trembling irridescent stuff that I've seen squids do. With so many people playing with strings of LEDs lately, there must be some canned solutions for this stuff by now. I'm probably only going to have limited time for this but if I can price out something off-the-shelf I may be able to find budget for it. -mykle- p.s. thanks for all the advice on the extension cord! I ordered some fuseable tape and some Coax-Seal to play around with. _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
