2010 RGB Nodes – Submersion Test
Posted by JEC on February 23rd, 2010
Yesterday I received my sample string from mrpackethead in New Zealand. The factory made us two test strings of 50 nodes each. Hooray for DHL and 2 day (!) around-the-world service. Hooray also for Chinese New Year being over. It seems like most of the country is shut down for 2 weeks in February.
Spent a few hours figuring out the protocol (this new 8 bit controller speaks a somewhat different language than last year’s 5-bit system). Once I could drive the nodes discretely and successfully, I wrote some quick microcontroller code for a DMX bridge.
Here they are, lounging happily in a bowl of tap water. All we need is a fish.
Onward!
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February 23rd, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Very impressive, snow should be no problem
February 23rd, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I have a 600g Salt Water Fish tank I can test them in if you want to send over a few hundred nodes
February 23rd, 2010 at 7:11 pm
I just need to learn how to swim so I can use them
February 25th, 2010 at 3:19 am
John might embed this; Its another view of the pixels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WrdMv_nm8M
Tommorrow i’m off to China, to go and visit the factory, and see what other goodies there are! I’ll let you all know how progress goes.