I can put some time towards install! Sounds like a fun idea. Lets do it.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Peter Torelli <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber > -- Thomas Hudson, PE thomashudson.org 1035 NE Skidmore Street (503) 522-9069
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