Comments on: Peggy 2 super pixels

By: jamessandlin

jamessandlin — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:03:52 +0000

nice video

By: mess_maker

mess_maker — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:53:53 +0000

“Any narrow LED will just make a spot on diffusion, period. I just built a project for a model box with some dimmed LEDs to simulate a larger-scale diffused glowing box thing. Theatrical diffusion (a reasonably heavy one, rosco 100) didn’t do shit to my last-minute narrow-angle LEDs”

You could always sand the top… carefully. That will add a diffusion and widen the spread at the same time.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:20:15 +0000

Pretty nice effect, and it explains why sony and such companies are saying there will be large screen OLED displays later in 2010, they hope some hacker makes them and they can then re-sell them branded as sony :)

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:16:26 +0000

That’s pretty cool, and the diffuser panel was impressive!

I was never a programmer, but I imagine projects like these are a great way to get started.

Likewise for programmers who don’t do a lot of hardware!

By: james

james — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:55:54 +0000

that diffuser looks great. diffusion’s been doing my head in for months. are there specific plastics you can get stuff made out of that do this better?

By: dirk

dirk — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:34:05 +0000

That is some heavy duty diffusion. The key there is those are fairly wide-angle LEDs.

Any narrow LED will just make a spot on diffusion, period. I just built a project for a model box with some dimmed LEDs to simulate a larger-scale diffused glowing box thing. Theatrical diffusion (a reasonably heavy one, rosco 100) didn’t do shit to my last-minute narrow-angle LEDs

By: fooquestionmark

fooquestionmark — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:04:15 +0000

That guy has the most soothing voice. I expect him to be telling me to just breath in and relax.

By: Reikaze

Reikaze — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:00:37 +0000

Don’t be so harsh, there’s a beggining in every being. If they’re interested, then it’s good.

Cool effect =D… practical? dunno, but its cool =D.

By: mic

mic — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:50:19 +0000

awesome colour transition. Yea hopefully they are sarcastic. Otherwise mankind is in trouble.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:36:22 +0000

I’m not sure whether the previous posters are being sarcastic, or if they really are that incompetent. I’d like to assume humour over stupidity, but this IS the internet after all.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:30:05 +0000

Im pretty sure they acually use this… like alot… im on my macbook, and when i took a macro shot of my screen and zoomed in a bunch, there were bajillions of rows of these tiny stacks of the lights: red, blue, and green. Idk

By: 0n37w0

0n37w0 — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:10:02 +0000

I think its already patented by Daktronics they do LED based large area displays.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:36:15 +0000

Cool stuff.

By: sPiTfIrE

sPiTfIrE — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:32:14 +0000

Wow, that’s really cool. U should try and patent some part of that quick…it has some real world economic value right now. I think of the light canopy in Las Vegas off the top of my head.

By: -.-

-.- — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:39:33 +0000

PEGGY MITCHELL?