On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:57:39 +1000
"David Duffy (AVD)" <david@audiovisualdevices.com.au> wrote:

> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> >>> I wonder if there is any such project which can drive these
> >>> large no. of LEDs and also provide a mechanism to design lighting =20
> >>> effects
> >>> favorably through a linux box. any such thing in this planet ?
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> >
> > You might want to look at the cubatron projects from 3waylabs.
> >     http://www.3waylabs.com/projects/cubatron/
> >     http://www.3waylabs.com/projects/brc/
> > They've done about that many LEDs, animated at 50 frames/sec, with a =20
> > linux box as the top level controller.  There are some technical =20
> > details, but it's not in any sense "published" in the details.
> >
> > It seems that Mark's strategy is to make each "voxel" an independently =
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> > addressable RGB LED, after which it's just a matter of communications =
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> > protocol, wiring, and software...  And money, of course.
> >  =20
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> Addressable LED pixels are available pre-made or you can roll your own=20
> easily.
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> One Chinese seller is Ray Wu: http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799
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> The WS2801 RGB driver chips are cheap and easy to interface to.
> David...
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Thanks for the link. they have really good stuff. I'll check there=20
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