This week we saw an interesting animated motorcycle tail light over on Reddit. But there wasn’t really enough background to get its own feature.
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On Semiconductor is showing off an 8x8x8 LED cube which they claim as 12,000 LEDs. We can’t figure out where all those LEDs are used in the design, but maybe you can. Here’s one that we know has 4096 LEDs in its matrix.
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I count a 16x16x16 cube, so tri colour is over 12k LED. I think they rushed the post… ‘LED Bulbs’ ???
The cube might be 8 inches on a side, though.
I’m with Vimto, I don’t think it was rushed at all, someone just wasn’t paying attention, it’s clearly 16x16x16 = 4096 , if it’s really tri-colour and not RGB then it’ll be 8192, if it’s actually RGB then it’ll be 12288 leds.
There are so many things wrong in just that part that I’m not sure I’d want to purchase much of on-semis LED stuff :-D
Yes, I think the person the wrote the script incorrectly multiplied (16 x 16 x 16) x 3 with the ‘3’ representing the (R-LED + G-LED + B-LED), to get 12288.
Obviously, it should be (16 x 3) x (16 x 3) x (16 x 3) = 110592!
Your maths assumes that each RGB LED was made up of 3x3x3 LEDs, rather than just 3 (3x1x1) LEDs. That is why your total of 110592 is 9 times too big.
Yes, I think the person the wrote the script incorrectly multiplied (16 x 16 x 16) x 3 with the ‘3’ representing the (R-LED + G-LED + B-LED), to get 12288.
Obviously it should be (16 x 3) x (16 x 3) x (16 x 3) = 110592.
Not sure if sarcasm
or just failed logic
12,000 LEDs. Guess they’re thinking one red, one green and one blue.
Times 4096 ≈ 12,000.
As most of the Reddit commenters said on the motorcycle hack, it’s illegal to have animated red lights on a non-emergency vehicle, nor is it legal to have red turn signals.
red turn signals are allowed in the states, but the rest of the stuff is globally illegal. and once the housing is opened, it’s illegal– even if it was put right back together..
saying that something is globally illegal is pretty damn uninformed.
For ex. in Finland, you arent allowed to have red as other than brake lights and blue is not allowed anywhere.
Yellow animated lights for ex. are allowed.
you sir should A) do research before you post B) post less grand posts C) stop posting.
OH SNAP
Thats my tail light, when it is finished, there will be robotic turn signals that are goingto come out from under the bike, and the go back when off. I have started to prototype the turn signals. the video is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyepf-GaSOI
I’ve heard this before but its either been changed or has some loop holes because ford is using annimated lights as a standard option. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8BJsP22QH8).
The Ford Thunderbird had them in 1965.
The Mercury Cougar got them in 1967.
Shelby Mustangs used Cougar taillights in 1967, and 65 T-bird lights in 1968.
Thats my tail light, It will have an inspection switch that will make it operate like a normal tail light when needed. There will also be robotic turn signals that will come out from under the tail when on then retract and hide back under the bike when done. You can see a video of my prototype for the turn signals here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyepf-GaSOI. Its an early working model I have a few changes to make before milling out of aluminum.
well I dunno how they got that wrong, but that cube looks like 16x16x16 rgb to me…
Yeah it’s a 16x16x16 cube. Multiplied by 3 for rgb gives the >12k number.
Its actually a 16x16x16 cube (4096 LEDS) but they are RGB so they are counting each one as 3 (4096 * 3 = 12288 LEDS)
In my best Picard voice “There…. are…. 4…. I…. mean….. 16x16x16….. lights”.
.The lights look 1/2″ apart, so I am guessing 8″x8″x8″
“The NeuroKnitting project captures brainwaves by weaving them into a scarf.”
maybe pedantic, but the neuroknitting project KNITS brainwaves into a scarf, it doesn’t weave them, thats a totally different method of producing fabric.
The comment under the video does said “…This is an 8 in x 8 in x 8 in , 3 dimensional display using over 12,000 LED devices…
I don’t get why people didn’t read that!
for the LED cube: at 3:10 ( http://youtu.be/Lax2zxvL5Kc?t=3m10s ) the cube has a display that reads “Tri-color LED Cube (LED)” though they can turn red, green and blue. so yes, it’s technically ~12K LEDs.