That is a really cool idea! I can already see the neighbor hood kids flashing through the night with "EAT ME" and "NO FEAR" flashing on their wheels. Power and indexing on a pin / brush? Charge a super cap on the wheel? Or just balance batteries around the wheel? Time based? Accelerometer to change the messages when the bike jumps, turns or even wipes out? BTW: Has anyone tried projecting an image on a water screen? Easy to make if you have metal working tools. A 3 inch disk sawed half way thru (err... sawed so that it would be two thinner disks if you didn't stop half way) and then with a hole drilled from the center of once face down to the slot and threaded for a water hose. Very nice effect at night. The image floats in the air and the water screen isn't visible at all. It is coming up on Halloween you know... James Newton, PICList Admin #3 mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Dattalo To: Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 14:56 Subject: Re: [PIC]: MultiPICs = PushMePullYou <-- Cudos On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Bob Ammerman wrote: > Sorry, ideas don't count, only actual implementations. That's why I didn't suggest mine. Remember Bob's clock? (Congratulations for the /.'ing, Bob - though they were only two years too late.) Well, I had access to excess high efficiency RGB LED's. My ambitious project which I never undertook was to put these extra LED's to use on my bicycle wheels. 4 radial strings of hexagonally-close-packed RGB triads of PWM'd LED's per wheel. I had PCB's for 30 HCP LED's and planned to hack 5 508's to control them - a total of 40 12c508's... A new idea for motion pictures. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=SET%20PICList%20DIGEST -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=SET%20PICList%20DIGEST