( I got off the [OT] list year after 9/11 - some really disturbing posts
back then. :-(   )

Looks like EmbedInc got short changed in this article:  (link from
newscanner.com site)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/columnists/bea_garcia/3101174.
htm

"As he finally developed it, the Eyeball, one or several, can be programmed
from any computer. Linked by phone line to a controller, the Eyeballs can be
programmed via the Internet. The controller is manufactured for Newscanner
by a company in Israel."


I didn't follow the propellor clock thread enough to venture a guess at
this.
1. What's rotating - just the LEDs or is there a PIC on the rotating part?
2. Are slip rings sufficient at that speed to transmit data over or it power
only?


Thanks again for the link to the newscanner site!
chuckc

----- Original Message -----
From: M. Adam Davis <adampic@UBASICS.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Eyeball optics


> FWIW It's a cool video, and a neat design.  I remember seeing something
> substantially similar at ESC Chicago last year in a booth.  Can't
> remember what they were advertising, but since then I've wanted to build
> one with three bars of light at 120 degree angles with three colors of
> LEDs.  I even wondered about layering the bars so you can have a several
> messages inside the same globe at different radiuses(eseses).
>
> Toys are fun.
>
> -Adam
>
> Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> >>I followed the link you sent with the eyeball info - pretty cool.
> >>Watching the video it looks like the LEDs project on to the smoked
globe?
> >>Special LEDs or some kind of optics to give them a focal length of the
> >>
> >>
> >globe
> >
> >
> >>wall?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I didn't know they had a video.  I'll have to check it out.
> >
> >The globe is clear, not translucent.  You see the LEDs directly, which
are
> >wide angle.
> >
> >
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