Intergalactic supercomputers for all (Not CGI)
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2021
- A quick showcase of various supercomputers and a build of an Evilution hexputer.
You can download the Gerber files for the 6" by 4" (150mm by 100mm) and A4 supercomputers here:-
www.bigclive.com/freebies.htm
The 6X4 PCB file is called gallium2
www.bigclive.com/gallium2.zip
and the A4 sized version is A4gallium
www.bigclive.com/A4gallium.zip
The 6X4 and A4 panels are designed to fit into a picture frame with the glass removed.
To get PCBs made, choose your preferred PCB manufacturer and upload the whole zipped file on their order page.
The other components you will need are flashing LEDs of your choice, either 470 ohm or 1000 ohm (1k) resistors and a spare USB cable to chop and connect to the PCB.
Note that JLCPCB have changed somnething on their site including PCB filename recognition! If their site doesn't recognise the outline, change the name of the outline file from outline.GML to outline GKO.
If you want one of Mouse's mini supercomputers or a badge minicomputer his Etsy page is here:-
www.etsy.com/shop/Flashything
For one of Evilution's hexaputer kits his Etsy page is here:-
www.etsy.com/shop/hexled
All these panels can be built at your own pace. I timed it to see a typical build time for myself.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of RUclips's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
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from the HexLed store; "I was selling about 4 kits a week, so keeping on top of the stock was easy. Then Big Clive released his video and I sold 46 kits in 2 hours and I have had to close the shop to catch up." I can't help but feel warm and fuzzy for buying out someone's shop. ^.^
In 2 days I eventually sold 80 kits and 55 plain PCBs. The postman looked a bit downtrodden when he had to pick them all up.
Me too but imagining the shop owner's initial panic attack 😳, makes me laugh a little. 😆
Where can I locate blue slow flash LED's?
@@evilutionltd Thanks for your work - I built mine over Christmas.
Could u use an opto coupler to create a real rng program?
Back in my pro audio days, we used to put something called "LPD" on our equipment spec spreadsheets when comparing possible equipment choices. LPD = lights per dollar. If the rack was a show piece, high LPD equipment was sometimes chosen so the client felt like they were getting something for their money. The DSP boxes we often used had a single red.poweer.light on the front and weren't terribly interesting to the uninitiated.
That's so smart 😂 awesome
Der blinkenlights are an important factor.
That's just like having people go "I want those shoulder mount camera's, that looks good" while a much smaller one these days might be just as capable though yes you might see it in the resulting image when it comes to dynamic range when you knew what to look for.
Best thing was when having hired 4 of those big ones and the job was over, you later heard the customer saw you at so many places due to having to move a lot with them (in a multi-camera setup for instance) they thought you were there with 6 of those camera's :P.
I've always believed that if a device has lots of LEDs, the buyer thinks they are getting their moneys worth.
@@tonylock7657 that's just like the common knowledge that lot's of RGB fans in a computer makes it faster 😄
My Hexputer arrived a couple of weeks ago - plan to start assembling it this weekend. Probably with Big Clive's Patreon Weekend Stream playing as a mood enhancer.
@Tim M Hexputing.
@Tim M The real question is....
What don't they do?
Some people can actually recall that old computers displayed their registers' state by lighting up corresponding bits on a panel and populated huge rooms with their circuitry.
This is what influenced, I guess, the look of «supercomputers» in Sci-Fi movies, especially where blinking in the dark rhymed with sky full of stars.
don't forget Star Trek. Terribly high tech in the seventies. Remember when the Star Trek computer said "working" in that sexy female voice?
I worked at a financial firm and someone they hired to do a brochure came around snapping pictures of the various departments. I had to escort the guy through our computer room and showed him our IBM mainframe. He appeared frustrated and finally asked if we would show him the "insides". He was expecting huge panels full of blinking lights just like a sci-fi show. Disappointment. Then he asked if I could make the workstation CRTs display any cool graphics. They were green monochrome 3191 "dumb" terminals, so no. We were a financial business and he was looking for LucasFilm or something.
Honestly - this is my childhood in a screenshot … from Buck Rogers to most 70s and early 80s shows … I love it!!
Hope you’re doing well Clive!!
Computers, pre microchips and video terminals.
Twiki and Dr. Theopolis.
Biddy Biddy
So nice watching RUclipsr that don't have an add every 5 second
As a dinosaur I completely approve of many LEDs for a proper computer, especially supercomputers of course. These are important and valuable Clivean projects.
13:47 Right hand side, first row of whites has one sticking way out. Also right hand row of reds has one wonky. Looks like you caught them before the finish though.
Haha, I was also yelling at the screen at this point.
4 from the back, second row from right at 13:53 shows a white one and on 5'th from back first row from right has a red one sticking out as well.
That's the first time we see em.
Kinda funny because his right middle finger is touching the high red LED while talking about not finding any that are high at 13:51. D5 and D18 were standing quite high.
Watching them drift out of sync after start up is incredibly satisfying
What I like about these super computers, in preference to for example, a Cray .... is the simplicity of adding more boards to greatly increase in computing power. And they are so much more compact. NCC-1701, Jupiter-2 and even HAL, has nothing on these.
Don't forget the "Seaview" Submarine ;)
One technique I use for when placing lots of LEDs is to line them up in the positive and negative rails of a bread board. Then I can test all the LEDs for matching brightness. Then when I go to put the LEDs into the PCB, I snip the LED standing in the bread board so I always know the polarity directly before placing it into the PCB. they stand up nicely in the bread board which is easier to snip, and also the legs are easy to clean up because they remain in the bread board until you pull them out.
I like how simple this design is.. Just by relying on the manufacturing tolerance of the on/off timing.
The resistors got much higher tolerances
@@CyberlightFG in this application, resistance just controls the brightness. But it shouldn't be noticable to the naked eye
@@Spiralem Well if the timer is capacitor driven instead of crystal driven, you have two tolerances stacking up.
@@Spiralem I very sincerely doubt that the external resistor has no effect on the blink rate. It's not like there's a microcontroller and a crystal oscillator in there, it's probably some sort of simple oscillator IC and a capacitor to hold the energy for each blink. The simplest circuit I can think of would literally just be a capacitor connected across the terminals of the LED, but a cap that small would flash too quickly on its own. I doubt it's much more complicated than a few transistors, but I honestly could be wrong.
If you drive multiple blinking LEDs from a single resistor, they will tend to blink in sync. It occurs to me that someone very clever could lay down runs of sync'd LEDs so as to cause specific shapes to appear.
Something along the lines of Clive's lamp with the neons that did the same thing, I was thinking of that myself. I wonder, what if you put two in series? Or two in parallel, then those parallel pairs in series? I dunno, there's all sorts of things you could do, stick resistors and capacitors in here and there just to introduce more needless complexity. Sadly though, chaos theory works best with large groups of identical units, the base layout should be as even and boring as possible, so that the tiniest differences end up producing the big results.
When I imagined there might be a computer on there, I thought it'd be nice to do Game Of Life. But not Conway's rules necessarily, cos they're pretty sparse and boring and degenerate into nothing pretty quickly. But you can alter the rules so that any number of live neighbours causes birth and death, and get all sorts of interesting results. Maybe something like that, that on a timer randomly chooses a new rule.
Actually back in the early days, Conway knocked up his own purpose built game-of-life machine, it used RAM and logic, I think, to read and compare the neighbours for each cell, without having to do it in software, so it was much faster. I think you'd interface it via serial to a normal computer, point being it could tear away at a decent sized grid much faster. I used to really want one, at one point, but now there's wristwatches could do it in software faster. Maybe an FPGA would be good for that. The tricky bit would be the addressing, though I once implemented GOL in software and came up with a couple of shortcuts, since for each new cell you evaluate, you already have some results left over from the previous one that are relevant.
I'd been wondering why not one resistor ...
Have a lower voltage?
Or is there something weird going on...
Like the videos that are happening at the moment about a circuit that's speed of light related...
Aerial
Capacitor
Inductance
Circuit
... 🐱 ...
can probably write a script that figures it out relatively easily if that is indeed the case. i say script because a complex shape is likely goingto melt your brain and collapse your patience into a singularity.
@@mySeaPrince_ not _quite_ sure whether i understand your question correctly given the completely unrelated random words you sprinkled in there, but i _think_ you meant to ask why all the LEDs didn't share a single resistor? in that case the answer is: because then all the current will go through one big resistor (= it'll heat up way more), and also the fewer LEDs are on at the same time, the higher the current will be through those, possibly damaging them. the only way to prevent that would be to make the resistor such a high value it would protect a single LED, but then as soon as more LEDs are on the current across them individually becomes so low you can't see them anymore.
What if you added a photo resistor pointed at each LED, and a random web of traces on a middle layer connecting each photoresistor to another LED somewhere else on the board. You should end up with the frequency of each light's blinking shifting randomly around.
I have had a MASSIVE fascination with LEDs that do things on their own (flash, fade, color change, etc.) for many years now, and this tickles all of those fascinations. Especially high amounts of them in one place. I think it all started with a flashy dragon I got a while ago with the blue/red flashers. Similar to what you showed, they all start on red then slowly become un synchronized. I could watch it flash (and those boards too) flash away all day! I love it!
Funny, I used to make these way back in the early 1990s when the blinky leds first came out. I used to make small 12v red versions in a bezel (still have one) for car dash boards before alarms were the norm, so it looked like you had a car alarm, and a thief would leave your car alone. Sold many hundreds (lost count) for $15 each. I bought thousands though, and noticed same effect, so also made large blinking panels from old populated pcbs, and sold them for hundreds of dollars as supercomputer tech art.
OMFG, did not think of using already-populated boards as a backdrop. That idea is going in my back pocket.
So glad these are now available! Would love it if you made a video full length of you assembling a few of them and just rambling/answering questions 😁🤘
At 13:49, "this is all looking pretty good"... On the right! There's a pokey-uppy one!
The hex one is very marvelous. Love the occasional sequences you get.
The hexagon is giving me a Blake's 7 moment. Zen, put up the force wall and clear the neutron blasters for firing.
CONFIRMED!!!
Yeah. "Slave" was rubbish.
@@hughn - Slave actually had a computer board (Acorn System) from a U.K. computer manufacturer mounted on it’s body…
@@Mark1024MAK Acorn / ARM chips must be the "Tarial Cell" of today.
Big Clive getting his video groove back!
Clive i am surprised that you didn't solder a micro usb socket to the back of the board so you save all the faf of cutting off the plug etc. Just an idea for future board designs. You did it on your LED driver board.
The rectangular PCBs are designed to go into a picture frame. It made mounting the connector awkward.
@@bigclivedotcom you need the straight on connectors like you find on gps units, surface mount on the backside of the board and the usb would come straight out the back of the frame add another footprint for a flush one and you're in business
Always great tips from you when you're working on a project. :D It's quite daunting, soldering ~300 LEDs to a PCB...
I have so far completed and framed two 4x6 units, one with flicker flame candle style LEDs, and one with red/blue dual color alternating LEDs. I also completed and framed an A4 unit with the same red/blue LEDs. I will be working on a second A4 unit soon with red/green alternating LEDs for Christmas! Thanks for making the files available for us!
Ohhh I would love to see the flicker one.
Hey man, I just wanted to say thank you. I acquired a Yihua iron a long while back (its fantastic. soldering is no longer a struggle) and my next stop is a cheap benchtop power supply. My electronic knowledge was very rudimentary before I started binging you a few years ago. So it's thanksgiving time here in the States, and I owe you a BIG one.
This is fun.
That’s marvellous, matched also by the soldering skills used.
The hexaputer looks awesome. Too bad a kit isn't sold to make the "cube" version.
I'm leaning towards the RGB kit rather than a solid color. It will look good with all the RGB in my new PC build.
Surely to make the cube version, you just substitute non-flashing white LEDs, where the "edges" of the cube are?
Or am I missing something?
@@BedsitBob If the person selling it supplies rgb leds then sure, if the kits are only sold in solid colors you might need to buy 3 (or leds from ebay)
@@BedsitBob No, the RGB LEDs (not currently available) can't be used for that since those RGB LEDs aren't controllable - they slowly cycle between colors. So you need three sets of different coloured random LEDs, and you probably want the "Slow" type which as Clive mentioned are not easy to get in small quantities except via these kits.
Yes, sourcing the white solid diffused LEDs for the border wouldn't be hard but that's not where the problem lies, it means you "only" need 3 kits to build one instead of 4. Assuming the Etsy selller offered the colors you want or even has three different colour variants (it has 3 currently, but not the ones used in Clive's cube) - it varies depending on supply.
OTOH if you want a solid or Fast blinking Cube it does mean you could buy just one kit and ignore the LEDs included (there's currently no "bare" kit). Not sure if the PCB layout files for it are available, but even if it is doing all the SMD resistors on the back will be a pain. Not that hard to do if you have a steady hand but will definitely take much longer to assemble.
I suspect it would be a much better idea would be talk to the Etsy seller, he/she may well me willing to put up a Cube kit if asked. Or even offering a "bare" kit with just the circuit board and smd resistors already soldered.
@@BedsitBob For me, the idea of a "kit" means everything needed is included. None of the kits currently offer having a 2nd color to use for the cube edges, so I would have to source other LEDs separate from the kit.
If I were to buy 4 kits of different colors, I could then mix-n-match the colors to make an edge color and have 3 colors for the sides. That could be repeated 2 more times, and the 4th would just be a mixture of the leftovers.
In the end, with what is currently available, buying just 1 kit won't get me the "cube".
Hehe, everyone knows RGB LED's make a computer faster :) :P.
When you talk about supercomputers as as effect, I can't help but think of how they depicted them back in the old Star Trek days. It involved multi-colored lights, moving discs, and a frosted lens, so that it made random swirling patterns. Rather reminiscent of the flame-effect device you posted recently.
the wall in UFO
..... The nacelle B.O.M. must have included LED's from the 23rd century.
Absolutely love your supercomputers. Inspired by you, I've constructed a supercomputer for my son using ESP8266 and a P10 red LED array of 16x32 with some code that runs a server page that he uses to write a stream of characters on the array and then returns to the intergalactic computation after some time. He is very happy everyday. I love it every time when he uses it.
As an admin of supercomputers i can confirm: They 100% look like that. They look awesome clive, i think i will build one for my office
Ooooookay, the new computer we installed exactly looks like this in the dark. Amazing.
Finally, some solder work again. Love those, and my personal supercomputers (10 by 7 1.5hz mixed monolight LED, 10 by 7 RGB morphing) is fascinating everyone who enters my office. Is is so relaxing if you need to get your head free ...
I love the hexagon and my first thought was it would be cool to make a cube and then I was shown the cubeputer. Awesome stuff!
Hey big Clive, I've notice that you're rapidly approaching the million subscriber mark. Which means - strap yourself in and go for throttle up! You are going to have one hell of a ride to stardom! Good luck and enjoy the overview effect you deserve it!!
Thanks. It's a while away yet. Technical channels tend to grow quite slowly.
I would LOVE to have a whole wall of these, or perhaps mount a big one on the side of a PC case. That'd look AWESOME!
It's a good way to get better performance. Everyone knows that more LEDs = more FPS in games.
Clive's dexterity is fascinating to watch... like a sleight of hand magician, every movement is so smooth
As a chronic dyspraxic I find his hands only videos fascinating...when he holds the solder between to fingers, the object to be soldered in one hand and the soldering iron in the other is a favourite. 👉💎👈
I would mix in about 1/3 slow LED's randomly in a fast array. I think that would make a nice effect.
The effect of holding the incomplete board in front of the working hexputer (about 22:01) and having the slow blinking leds shine through the pin holes in it is really nice. Maybe a 2 layer 'puter with the small fast green leds with lots of extra holes drilled in it in front of another board of slow blinking larger leds?
That was really soothing to watch💚🌻
Very cool setups on the random light leds very simple Design Clive
My dad did something similar to this, but with LEDs that do a slow RGB color fade.
An acquaintance of ours who was a regular attendee of Burning Man had managed to get an old electric golf cart and wanted to give it a dreamy / etheral look, so my dad put a bunch of RGB color fade LEDs in parallel on some thin wire and powered it with an LM317 set to 3.5V.
The ceiling was covered with a few layers of a thin decorative glittery fabric with the LEDs behind most of the layers. It made a cool subtle morphing effect across the while roof liner.
I wonder if I can make that effect happen in a smaller footprint and make it look like a computer having dreams...
I also wondered what it would look like, it took a while to find a vid of some one doing it.
watch?v=ywGKHMqYLTs?t=208
These might be too close together and the ISO was not set well on the camera . Still looked OK.
The LEDs I used to have would go from slow fade to quick fade to blinking, wonder if that would produce an interesting effect .
Very common thing
This reminds me of the disco light shows I built back in the early 80's. I used to put LEDS on The front panel of the electronics housing, representing the light show, so the dj could dial in a combination of effects. This was so satisfying.
The cube is the first thing I thought of when I saw the hexputer. Looks so much nicer than a solid hexagonal block of LEDs
I don't think I have ever soldered that many joints without an error or few, typically a solder bridge or open joint hidden under flux. So readers shouldn't be dismayed if they have a few errors. Thanks, Clive, for another constructive project!
Most awful is when I have lane-PCB and for convenience I want to bridge lanes (for instance for a common ground from somewhere) and the solder is like "Nope!! I won't do that no matter how hard you try!" and when you need to avoid a lane or islands getting bridged solder is like "Here you go!" :P.
That cube one looks great.
Sometimes bare bone basic setup of these supercomputers are the best route to go tried tested and true
Very nice. Twenty years ago I built a star with blinking LEDs for Christmas. And I'm in the process of building a circuit board with 392 neon glow lamps. Each glow lamp will have a capacitor and two resistors and will thus switch itself on and off. One of the two resistors limits the discharge current of the capacitor, because otherwise the electrode material of the glow lamps will be sputtered away. For 12 years I have been running a test circuit to test the life of the glow lamps, so far everything has been fine. I would just have to continue soldering the 392 circuits to finish.
Mine arrived a few weeks ago and just built it today after watching this video it took me about 4 hours 20 minutes as I don't have the circuit board holder, only had 1 led not work as I fitted backwards. I went for the fast flash pink LEDs and put a constant blue led boarder around it. I'm well happy with it.
Love the project, just ordered the yellow hexputer myself.
Fun project, I will have to download your zip files, thank you Clive (once again)
Great work!
I would also suggest adding a few more red LEDs in such a way that they form the edges of a perfect cube with blue flashing LEDs on its plane surfaces.
It's so good to have affordable electronics. When I was in college in the 80's, if you blew up components (especially EEPROMS) you got a real roasting for it. Worst I did was miswire a 8086 board and fried the processor ... and pretty much all the important stuff on the board ... I just put it back in the cupboard and got another one out. Next class must have taken the hit for it.
I LOVE these, I think I'll actually make one for myself. I might get a bunch of the hexagon ones
You could join them together like a football to make an orb shape
A fun project! A tip for cropping is to get an end cutter, much easier to use.
Gratz on 1 Million!
This is so cool! Definitely going to have to get one myself.
I’ve actually used a computer with programmable blinking lights, and my software used them to show me progress of the computation. It was an Intel Hypercube with only 16 nodes, each node with several colored LEDs associated with it. So the use of self-flashers sort of rubs me the wrong way… not that I could necessarily tell except at startup. Obviously self-flashers are much more easy to use, and provide a much nicer effect than they have any right to.
Awesome lights big Clive
Anybody else just see "5 Elf Flashing Leds" written on Clive's notepad before realising it said "Self" ?
Awesome Clive, I was wondering how these worked. I had assumed a small AtTiny or some other microcontroller was driving the display, but then you said each LED has an oscillator the pennty dropped - it really is that simple?!
On a different note, my mini supercomputer from mouse is *still* running months on from a little solar panel. I had a funky idea where I could add a small battery circuit and PIR sensor and drop the entire thing into epoxy "brick" and have a perfectly waterproof outdoor supercomputer!
I like how the resistors and LED's are all numbered on the hexputer, not necessary but satisfies my OCD :)
Superb video, just ordered a supercomputer got just the job for it 😎😎
Register status lights like the ones on 70’s IBM mainframes have always attracted me
Man that looks so cool I can imagine folks are gunna be making their own grow lights from those zip files
Adverts to the Power of Clive... Evilution sells out, due to high demand .. Well done Clive, I will have to think of something else for my Christmas construction project..
FYI, I have a hat which had a flasher LED in series with two regular LEDs and worked off a 9 volt. Worked quite well. I did a project which used six flasher LEDS with a six LED element (radio shack) and it simulated a fire quite nicely. This might be a neat thing to try in a 12 volt light up panel.
Really interesting video as ever ! Nice stuff
To make soldering easier on ground planes and thicker tracks the component pad attributes can be set to 'thermal break' before ground plane flood is applied. Although this is not done for high current component pins.
thats perty fast soldering there those are cool looking
@13:53 or 833.83 seconds, top right corner, 1 column in, 4 down appears to be up by a few millimeters than the other LEDs. Maybe that case needs a little redesign to help maintain the same consistent pressure across the PCB and any components the foam is in contact with.
I can't wait until you have enough of these panels to illuminate the entire wall behind you during live streams. Stellar.
Not great for the compression though.
I never knew Kane (evilution) made these, good work 🙂
I did mine over several evenings. I also replaced the outer ones with slow rgb which looks good especially early on when they are all one colour while the centre ones goes out of sync.
This reminds me of watching a raster pattern on a CRT TV except a lot slower. I think it would be interesting to know how old SciFi TV shows and movies did these kind of effects.
you convinced me that I just had to have one... so off to Amazon I went and ordered a combo of single, dual, and triple color fast and slow flashing leds for a total of 600 of them... plan to mount them in a sheet of lexan and spray paint the back side flat black... gonna be fun soldering the bus wires to the led legs and resistors... thinking of the design shape to be an ellipsoid...
I love videos like this! Now try to mix some food stuff into them like you used too :P
the fact that they’re all USB powered makes me very happy
I was always amazed by through-hole pick-and-place machines, rapidly stuffing components into
We used to have a through hole insertion machine at work. The components came on strips of paper tape on a reel. Typically the machine would load about 199 out of 200 LEDs without issue. Insertion failures would go flying violently. It had very few problems with resistors, and handled capacitors pretty well. These days we use all SMT components.
Moar litez!
These are great, but my fave is the hexputer although the cube computer is a close second!
Very nice, the red rim adds a little contrast. 2x👍
Burroughs 6000 computers had an arrray of red leds (very much like the mini supercomputer here in function) that did this and did not represent data activity. I saw them on a group being burned-in at Burroughs. I also saw a failed 9000 system laying on its side in a caged storage area, 'What's that' I asked, 'We don't talk about that' was the reply.
Love the red Contrasting the blue looks good
A project idea might be to have a multi-colour version of your channel logo for your live streams. It could sit above your head and have shimmering eyes and a shimmering beard? Alternatively, you could make a sign with the word 'live' underneath your logo maybe even featuring an electric blue lightning bolt. Awesome effects in this video and really simple to do.
With the hex it’d be interesting to see if- by installing red leds in a Y across the centre to create the outline of a cube- and then a reflection of it and oscillation between the two if it might give the illusion of a rotating cube?
The SMD mini-supercomputers work very well off lithium ion batteries. I have one going on my desk now.
An excellent use for "street lithium" salvaged from certain recreational devices.
Use a BMS though. Some LEDs, esp red and amber, will stay lit below minimum safe voltage.
I saw a neat project back in the 1980s in radio electronics (or another) where someone did one of these panels but with counter chips (flasher LEDs not there yet) and made a neat altair looking panel, thing is he use an inverter on a couple LEDs so it never be fully dark
Very Nice!!!! So Simple!!! A suggestion to the manufacturer... I noticed a distinct lack of holes near the cable connections for a strain relief. Two 1/8" or 9/64" holes right next to each other would make a great attachment for a 4" zip tie. Even one 9/64" hole would do, feed it through the single hole, around the wire, and back out, zipping to itself and the zip tie head holds it from going through the hole.
Thank you Clive!
Feels familiar, And was a great video.
Very cool looking project!
Wouldn't a blinking LED not actually require a current limiting resistor? I would think that the blinking circuit would take care of that at the same time???
(Still quite new to electronics, so any advice you guys can give would be appreciated....)
Direct across 5V the current could be quite high. Using separate resistors also reduces LEDs getting in sync, and also protects them during a reverse polarity incident.
These remind me of the neon-resistor-capacitor arrays a guy called Tony Johnson in Teesside made back in the 70s. He made table sized arrays and potted them in resin, black at the back, clear at the front. They were amazing at the time, still would be, love to find one out in the world.
Neon relaxation oscillators. I show one in a video.
Nice niceeeee!!!! got to get a couple of these if there's any left!!
Spotted a couple out of alignment at 13:45 - on the right side, near the edge! (one red and one white) hope you discovered them later!
I can't help but sing in my head, "Light Bright! Light Bright! Turn on the magic of coloured lights!"
The A4 board with non-blinking, higher-brightness (well, up to the current limit of the traces - an amp?) LEDs would make a fine "shadow-free" (well, soft-edged shadows, which is really the point) light panel for amateur videography!
Not sure about that, I have an old flashlight with a 4 x 15 array of white LEDs, the Terralux TLW-80, WorkStar 80, and the shadows from it have lots of very close overlapping edges. Looks artificial almost, like bad cgi? Each LED is causing its own edge on the shadow, basically. Diffused ones wouldn't do that, or maybe you'd have to put a diffuser over the whole thing, for a lighting panel.
You need wide angle diffused LEDs for that. High brightness LEDs are often narrow angle.
I don't miss soldering LEDs... Worked in a place years ago soldering, could do 4 thousand LEDs a hour... (Components placed already)
I was unaware that blinking LEDs were available, got some ideas now..
Thanks for the video!
Oh these are neat! They're giving me ideas for a new bike light. I don't like the regular blinking bike lights, and while I did build some real powerful non-blinking ones, I do find them boring. If car drivers can ride around with all sorts of aftermarket headlights (which are very much illegal around here, but the cops don't seem to care), I should be allowed to ride around with a pair of supercomputers on my bike.
The orange hex one! Immediately thought of Zen from Blakes 7 saying "Confirmed".
"par-ti-cu-lar-ly wonky"... loved it! :D
@13:55 Got to love how the moment you say that there are no LED's sticking up there is one sticking up in position #18 near your right hand middle finger...LOL :)
That was awesome! I have often wondered about those sitting in the backdrop of your videos, and now I know! Man, they sure would have loved having this tech when they filmed the original Star Trek series! lol The green one made by mouse, inspired by Big Clive, has a very Matrixy vibe, good timing since the fourth iteration of the franchise will be released in about three weeks... Might just have to obtain one! It's so fascinating how simple randomization, can appear to be a complex algorithm, perhaps it is complex....hmmm....
I've been meaning to ask you about those, thanks!!
Heh should have ordered mine when this hit patreon a week or two ago. Oh well I'll wait til more are available and it'll give me something to do after Christmas.