The LED Christmas Tree I was working on is now at Kings Cross Station!

[Robin Baumgarten]

Hey all!

This is just a little show-off: You might have seen me work on lots of LED strips in the last weeks - I've now attached them all to a massive metal tree and installed the whole thing (with the help of a PR agency that built the tree) in Kings Cross Station:

It was a very hectic setup, so one cable in the second helix ended up broken. We'll fix that some time next week. But the other half is fully playable! Quite pleased how it all came out in the end :D

Some more pics from the setup:

 

Yay!

I'm using exactly 100m of LEDs (WS2812b strips at 60 LED/m), with several Teensys (connected via RS485) along the way to feed the data in. The game itself runs on another Teensy, with the typical Accelerometer Joystick setup you might have seen me built before.

[Jack London]

Awesome!! Well done!

[deanforbes]

looks good - pleased for you

[Miguel Letang]

AMAZING!

[Victoria Allende]

Hello and congratulation to you Robin,

I have a machine which I have been working on since almost two years now and I would now like Hackspace to work with me, how do I go about it? to get technical engineer tell me how I can work on my prototype. Do I have to bring the product to the office?

[Adrian Godwin]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Victoria Allende <victoria...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello and congratulation to you Robin,

I have a machine which I have been working on since almost two years now and I would now like Hackspace to work with me, how do I go about it? to get technical engineer tell me how I can work on my prototype. Do I have to bring the product to the office?

Hackspace doesn't really work as a design agency, though other hackspaces do take on commercial projects (I think Oxford does) and there are plenty of individuals who do vbarious forms of product development.

How you make contact is very dependent on your needs and intentions. You can certainly bring prototypes along and see if that generates interest or offers of help, but it's hard to know when the right people are around and some might want to concentrate on their own work rather than immediately get involved in giving advice or providing free resources.

It's probably better to write to this mailing list explaining what sort of expertise you're looking for and making clear what the commercial position is : whether you're looking for advice, paid consultation, shared ownership through a collaboration, NDAs etc. All of these are possible but if it's more than advice then people tend to want to know what they're getting into.

If you're willing to describe it fully here and explain areas where you need help you'll probably get useful advice (mixed with less useful advice). If you see it as a commercial development with intellectual property to protect, you're probably best off finding an individual (either here or directly via product development companies) and discussing it with them. You can still start here by explaining what sort of help you need (mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing etc.)

[Gil Cocker]

I saw it in the station the other day and it looks really good. Very impressed.

Bravo. 🙌

On Saturday, 9 December 2017 16:28:02 UTC, Robin Baumgarten wrote:

[Tom Lynch]

Neat project, you should check these out: http://smartshow.lighting/netws-340/

I used a variation of these which supports 12 universes of LED DMX data, it goes directly from ArtNet to WS2812b type protocol, although we used SK6812s so we could do RGBW.

This was for Miss Selfridge Oxford Street Christmas.

https://vimeo.com/244012361