Comments on: MIT Disco LED Dance Floor

By: phishinphree

phishinphree — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:53:09 +0000

I think the 30 fps is a little off. It only does 12-14 fps for full motion video. I’m sure some animation could be done at 30fps but addressing each led at 30fps is too much data for i2c to handle.

By: dance floors

dance floors — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:49:51 +0000

From the moment you start dancing on a custom dance floor, you will notice the difference. As a dancer, you should not have to compromise or hold back to prevent injury. “Having an energy-generating dancefloor is a very exciting and interesting-idea”

By: dişçi

dişçi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:18:08 +0000

MIT Disco LED Dance Floor – Hack a Day great article thank you.

By: Rowena

Rowena — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:06:21 +0000

THe dancefloor looks great! I need a miniature dancefloor made for an animation shoot Im working on in the UK. Anyone know anyone capable?

By: Stephen Watts

Stephen Watts — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:32:13 +0000

Ive heard Avr do the best dancefloors around the globe and that they cant be beaten. check out the website http://www.abstractavr.com/avr/index.php
please comment

By: ledanswerguy

ledanswerguy — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:04:42 +0000

Ledquestionguy (comment #13), you should check this out:
http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/bigclive/rgb.htm
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/LEDBed/index.html

By: rocky

rocky — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:33:44 +0000

I like the props they gave to the hitachi “let’s get perpendicular” flash cartoon in the FAQ page. Great project, it’d make for a really cool/challenging beer pong table.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:11:06 +0000

Nice idea.

However, companies like Color Kinetics have been making LED lights like this for a few years now, and a few enterprising nightlife venues around me have taken to putting them behind translucent walls, which easily could be made into floors. Controllable via DMX as well.

By: Chester

Chester — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:13:14 +0000

Is there any sort of vga input controller (like use the vga out of a comptuer) that will control led’s? that would make thigns much easier…

By: ledquestionguy

ledquestionguy — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:47:04 +0000

Does anyone know of an english schematic and insctruction set for wiring up an array of RGB LEDs like this? There’s BlinkenLEDs for red LEDs, and it’s in german, but I haven’t been able to find anything in english.

By: Ed3

Ed3 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:09:27 +0000

…and it’s dual purpose. Hang it on the wall and display announcements/messages/etc.

Or just leave it in place… Whatever…

By: wolff

wolff — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:35:36 +0000

Sweet, I’m gonna have to bust out the soldering iron and make one of these bad boys.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:47:04 +0000

Apparently they don’t teach dance at MIT.

Cool floor though.

By: wifigod

wifigod — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:15:19 +0000

#7 seems a little off topic, but anyway, I remember when Slashdot would steal it’s stories from Hackaday, now it’s the other way around. :( Old news…..what happened to Hack a Day?

By: john bokma

john bokma — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:16:36 +0000

And some UV LEDs and scorpions :-)
http://johnbokma.com/pet/scorpion/detection-using-uv-leds.html

A movie of a scorpion walking under black light is also available:
http://johnbokma.com/pet/scorpion/movie-torrents.html