X2 Time Ball: Final Assembly

DISCO! We hope you enjoyed the over-the-top X2 Time Ball video as much as we enjoyed making it! Getting this finished in time for New Year’s Eve meant the progress blog posts would have to wait, so we’ll be returning to a few details now after the fact, and continuing as future design plans are ironed out…

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Filed under: leds-lcds,projects — Tags: , , , , , , , — by PhilB, posted January 4, 2012 at 6:21 pm

New year’s disco ball: powering the beast

A quiet holiday provided some much-needed time for making progress on the New Year’s disco ball — officially now titled the “X2 Time Ball.”

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Filed under: arduino,leds-lcds,projects — Tags: , , , , , , — by PhilB, posted December 27, 2011 at 4:34 am

New year’s disco ball: because “disco icosahedron” just doesn’t have the same ring to it

“Simplify, simplify, simplify.” — Thoreau

“One ‘simplify’ would have sufficed.” — Emerson

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Filed under: leds-lcds,projects,prototyping — Tags: , , , , , , , — by PhilB, posted December 21, 2011 at 3:15 pm

New year’s disco ball: 3D shapes from 2D parts

In making our LED disco ball for the new year, it will be necessary to transition from the flat planes of Adalight and Adavision into the three-dimensional world. This has been a humbling experience in the KISS principle: “keep it simple, stupid!” The first tries did not end well…

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Filed under: leds-lcds,projects,prototyping — Tags: , , , , , , , — by PhilB, posted December 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm

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