Wow that looks sweet, the kinda thing case mod freaks would kill for on thier pc (I know I would lol).

Posted at 9:09 pm on May 8th, 2008 by Mojo

Great idea for a case mod where the color changes depending on the temperature of whatever you wish to monitor. I can just picture computers swimming with different colors as you crank up your favorite game in a dark room.

Posted at 10:23 pm on May 8th, 2008 by Aero

awesome!!

Posted at 10:26 pm on May 8th, 2008 by tjhow

Now if only the driver/interface was incorporated inside the RGB LEDs (and also would have a 1-wire interface), this could be a bit smaller.
If they can place 3 dies on a LED, why don’t they add one more for the “blinking”?

Posted at 3:08 am on May 9th, 2008 by DarkFader

Imagine a case mod that interfaced with the Phillips amBX background lighting system, that would be very cool.

Posted at 7:18 am on May 9th, 2008 by larawen

Cool images, my favorite.

Posted at 10:31 am on May 9th, 2008 by David

These appear to be just about the same thing as ThingM’s BlinkM’s http://thingm.com/products/blinkm.html. I am glad to see more of these types of units on the market, so hopefully they will become more available.. Lots of possibilities with these little guys!

Posted at 12:48 pm on May 9th, 2008 by OvRiDe

Similar to blinkm, except these have fewer brains (no standalone mode) and they’re 1/3 the price!

Posted at 11:41 pm on May 10th, 2008 by drewp

It seems a waste of the chip to only be driving a single LED. I got some samples of that chip and it can do 9 outputs, so it would be a great idea to make a taller module with 3 leds on it IMO.

BTW, soldering wirewrap to that chip is a total nightmare! Makes chipping a ps2 look easy in comparison.

Posted at 12:20 am on May 11th, 2008 by Richard

Oops, my mistake, it was a microchip controller that I was having a play with that had 9 outputs. Realized just after hitting the add comments button. DOH!

Posted at 12:23 am on May 11th, 2008 by Richard

I saw the Radiohead show in Charlotte the other day and they had something probably like this, and I was imagining that a solution exactly like this would be the way to do it. I figured it would be 1-wire controlled or some such. They had what looked like ropes hung from the catwalk above the stage spaced at about 6″ apart in various lengths hanging down, and they looked to have a whole bunch of individually controllable RGB LEDs down the length of the “rope”, with about 1-2″ of vertical resolution each. They displayed complex moving and static patterns and occasionally scrolled letters across them. I was thinking that they were using a projector at first but the images were way too precise to be done that way. That had to have been a few tens of thousands of these gadgets, though…. guess cost isn’t really an object at a big rock show like that. It was one of their major props.

Posted at 8:51 pm on May 14th, 2008 by n17ikh