If you're considering 5m of 36W LEDs from Aliexpress, maybe check out these EL Wire folks in downtown Portland:
http://www.ellumiglow.com/about By the foot is running ~$1.35, plus the transformer packs, which seems about the same ballpark... and you could probably resell it / re-use it for halloween. :) On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Mykle Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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