Sometimes early morning, just after waking, or shower time yield the best inspiration. With all of yesterday's problems it seemed that integrating the LED and the sensors was not worth the effort. Individual addressable LEDs can be purchased which already have their filtering components installed and addressable LED strips are readily available and feature mounting holes for standard header pins.
A design for a simple sensor board with feed-through ports was sketched. This design would allow a sensor to tap off power from an LED strip and simply send a single wire back to the controller. It can go in between two strips, at the end of a strip, at the beginning, or simply take power and have nothing to do with LEDs.
An important test was done with the LEDs to determine if two strips could be run in parallel. The prediction was that the LEDs would change in parallel but there was a chance they may simply fail to work in that kind of configuration since their data exchange was designed to work in series. An LED strip and a short bar were connected in parallel and given pseudo-random colors. Despite the different spacing of the LEDs, they were the same color in the same order which was the desired outcome.
The sensor board and LEDs were combined. Circuitry for the sensors was on a breadboard. The breadboard also served as a pass-through for the LEDs' power and data while tapping off the power. A single wire from the sensor board was fed to the Arduino and data was easily received from an infrared remote.
Downloads:
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Completed projects from year 3
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2017-06-17 (Sa)
A design for a simple sensor board with feed-through ports was sketched. This design would allow a sensor to tap off power from an LED strip and simply send a single wire back to the controller. It can go in between two strips, at the end of a strip, at the beginning, or simply take power and have nothing to do with LEDs.
Sketch of the infrared sensor board
An important test was done with the LEDs to determine if two strips could be run in parallel. The prediction was that the LEDs would change in parallel but there was a chance they may simply fail to work in that kind of configuration since their data exchange was designed to work in series. An LED strip and a short bar were connected in parallel and given pseudo-random colors. Despite the different spacing of the LEDs, they were the same color in the same order which was the desired outcome.
LEDs connected in parallel
The sensor board and LEDs were combined. Circuitry for the sensors was on a breadboard. The breadboard also served as a pass-through for the LEDs' power and data while tapping off the power. A single wire from the sensor board was fed to the Arduino and data was easily received from an infrared remote.
Sensor breadboard and feed-through LED
Downloads:
- Arduino firmware
- OpenSCAD code
- STL printable models
- STL printable pipe dividers
- Python Last-Man-Standing program
The rest of the posts for this project have been arranged by date
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1
Completed projects from year 2
Completed projects from year 3
Disclaimer for http://24hourengineer.blogspot.com/ and 24hourengineer.com
This disclaimer must be intact and whole. This disclaimer must be included if a project is distributed.
All information in this blog, or linked by this blog, are not to be taken as advice or solicitation. Anyone attempting to replicate, in whole or in part, is responsible for the outcome and procedure. Any loss of functionality, money, property or similar, is the responsibility of those involved in the replication.
All digital communication regarding the email address 24hourengineer@gmail.com becomes the intellectual property of Brian McEvoy. Any information contained within these messages may be distributed or retained at the discretion of Brian McEvoy. Any email sent to this address, or any email account owned by Brian McEvoy, cannot be used to claim property or assets.
Comments to the blog may be utilized or erased at the discretion of the owner. No one posting may claim property or assets based on a post.
This blog, including pictures and text, is copyright to Brian McEvoy.
2017-06-17 (Sa)
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