That’s simply beautiful… Lovely construction too, so as not to fall apart at those speeds…

I wonder if you could get something like this to create a sort of spherical 3D (surface only) display by pulsing the LED’s with the right timing. It might require faster spin-speeds in order to cover all the locations while maintaining POS, but it sure would be cool.

Hello, nice construction as i can see on the pictures on laserpoiter forums. But i cannot see the film it is not available in lots of countries (i.e germany9) because the music is copyrighted.
it would be nice when the film were posted again, without music.

Hi, the video is unfortunately blocked in Germany, but there is a simple way around it. Use a free proxy service like “hide my ass” and watch it from there.

imagine a mirror-balled covered walled warehouse with several of those LED balls reflecting everywhere.. cause everyone to be mentally abducted legally for one night.

I kept waiting for a sphere with a miniature Jodi Foster to drop in from above.

No way I would EVER build something like this. Waaay to distracting, would never get anything else done…

Greater than the sum of its parts all right

Awesome. A mechanical liquid raver. I want.

+1 Chris

This is totally awesome!

I bet, feeding that thing with some µC which “listens” to music would make it even more awesome. It would be much cooler powering the LEDs with PWM…or even combine an “audio listening” µC and PWM-feeding the LEDs.

Aye is is genius in its relatively simple (hard to get right though he says) design yet extremely impressive result.

Mechanically scanned lissajous figures! Bet it look even more awsum in the flesh.

Freakin awesomesauce.

As myself being once a HardCore Raver, I APPROVE!

Good thing youtube doesn’t auto replay this or i would be stuck watching this all day. So hypnotic…

Not available in your Country – Big fuck you to WMG.

Never buying your shit again.

Someone please rip it with keepvid.com and upload it on rapidshit.

so now the most appropriate extension would be to setup color bands to correlate with specific tones think EQ bands and see interference theory for more reference. then tie in the motors to work off of the actual music played into it like, each sound range (highs – mids – lows) feeding the individual axis’ motors.. put a mirrored or stainless hood around it and you have a half sphere/shape (with most music/waves being 12/5 related a pentagon would be a nice style for a hood around the central piece) of pure awesomeness. sell em to night clubs all over to tie in with a music feed like a visual speaker.

thanks for sharing this.. it is a great piece of electronic art.

Pure awesomeness.

(but the wooden base is begging to be covered in mirrors)

He can solder like a maniac! Unbelievably beautiful

Is not this the device used to transport oneself to other dimensions in the movie Contact?
http://dalesorenson.com/personal/life_story/contact_sketch2.gif

This is what I want power sources of the future to look like. They obviously won’t, but, a man can dream.

Y’know, if something broke on that and shards of material went flying and hit someone in the eye… I’d want one even more!

Spectacular! I want to see this produced commercially. I could see this being made into a fill 3D display. I remember reading up on true 3D display tech and something like this was postulated but was deemed unfeasible due to various constraints. This seems to have overcome many of them!

I am all kinds of impressed.

Also want to see improvements, sensors to allow finely tuned images, more leds all full RGB, semi transparent or mirrored base.

I also am quite impressed.

WOW. :o

Muhahahahahahahhhaaaaa now to expand it and build my man sized frame inside, add the flux capacitor and YES!!! My plan for world domination via flashy lights and time travel will be complete!!!! ahahahahhahahaa ahhhhahahahahahah aahhhhhaahah ermmm did I just say that out loud? Bugger! back to the drawing board:D

But seriously thats awesome:)

BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE

replace the LEDs with lasers and were all set to shoot out raver eyeballs :)

I watched this while listening to Dubstep (Downlink – Gamma Ray Burst) and my head exploded.

conductive thread + LED’s :)

that could work..

for bonus points make a stack of laminated sheets with embedded thread and attach LEDs to the ends, for 3-D sphere on the cheap.

works well.

Hello, I’m working through my school in a foster child out reach program with our robotics club and was wondering if you would be willing to help us out. Our group saw your Spinning LED-Ball (RGB) project and thought that this might be something cool for the kids to try. You would of course be given all due credit but we would like your help. What parts did you use and could you help us break it down into schematics or some sort of instruction set?

Here’s what I want to see now: A giant version of this with a climate-controlled ecosphere suspended in the center.

BEST. DANCE FLOOR. EVER.

The raves would be LEGENDARY.