That's an elegant, highly engineered solution. I'm not so talented. I would just get a rear lens cap, cut the back off and epoxy on a ring to slip over an LED lamp or flashlight.
this is a cool sunset lamp in 2024. i had a sunset lamp around 1998. it was an old slide projector with a 100W halogen bulb and different camera filters in there instead of slides. there was one or two combinations of filters that looked like real sunsets with similar brightness.
You K-tip your SMD passives, both pads at a time? You’re a braver man than I. Pad-by-pad with a D12 is my go-to, and you’ll want to do the same if you end up having to solder in tighter quarters.
I think if I had to solder a lot of components close to each other now, I'd use a stencil and an oven. Do I have an oven? No :D But I'd buy one. Or make one. I'm a bit lazy and like efficiency, ahahaa :)
I just couldn't, because with this lens optics, I would only have a small spot on the wall. To make it work with real optics, I had to use a short focal-length lens that somewhat disperses the light. Then it would have worked, but such lenses are very short in height. So electronics would not fit :(
Wow, you should patent this design, for sure! It looks amazing 😻 I’ll definitely buy one, if it will be available Great video, I didn’t even know about the electronic signals from focus ring 😅
I hate you a little bit.😄 This looks so good!!!! My sister is a photographer and I like this Kind of technology/ Idea. Now I'm looking for broken lenses just to build that! But I also know how difficult it will be again, but the inner hellhound wants to build it now. I don't have your experience with the PCBA or battery, so I have to try it without a battery and with an Arduino Pro. But thank you for this great idea, it just looks great! And this is actually my first comment on UA-cam. Subscription was immediate! I love people who can build creative, great things and usefull things like you. Thank you. But still kind of hate you. Cause I know how complikated this will be. 😂👍
Ahahaha! I'm so glad you liked it enough to want to build it without any prior experience. That's quite brave of you! To save some time, you could probably eliminate all the control features and keep the original remote to turn the lamp on and off and change the modes. In that case, you would only need to make a hole for a USB-C connector, which you can buy pre-soldered to the PCB. Perhaps you could place the lamp remote in another photography accessory, like a camera flash remote or something similar. Anyway, if you need some guidance, feel free to ask. And good luck. Dont hate me please, ahahaha
Great video! Just found this channel and really love both the types of projects you do, and the quality of videos you make for them. Keep up the great work!
Really cool shots! Nice story telling. Would just be nice if you explain a bit more how gray code works and how you process the signals. But besides that really amazing. dont know how you can only have 1.6k subs
Hello. Thank you 🙂 I wanted to make video more dynamic, that is why i did not include detailed explanations. Gray code feature is that only “one bit changes when the slider moves from one position to another”. So from 0 to 1 is “000” to “001”, from 1 to 2 is “001” to “011“. Between two numbers the difference is only 1 bit. Why its better? Because when signal is measured with a microcontroller, slider can be moved at the middle of reading process. Which in case of a binary code leads to a reading mistakes. Cause two bits in adjacent numbers can change simultaneously. With the gray code, even when slider is moved at the middle of the data reading, you either get a previous position or the one the slider was moved to 🧐 Then i just connect contacts of the slider to the pins of the microcontroller. Only 4 pins are needed. After reading those pins (getting 0 or 1) it is just a simple if condition in the code :) For example, if all signals measured are 0000 - first position and first lamp mode. Hopefully my answer was not too long :) Have a great day 🌞
@@NickElectronics No worries AS a Software Developer i find this the Most interesting in such Videos. But makes sense abreally beautiful and well designed lamp! I really Like the controls.imagine this with a clicky aperture Ring haha
@@GamingClubGermany Hehe. Thanks again. If by 'clicky aperture ring' you mean purely mechanical ones that old lenses have, yeah, it would be problematic to read signals withot a signals even existing))
Hello, thank you very much 😊 I am really glad you liked it, cause I put a lot of effort in it 🌞 Next ones are going to be the same quality or even better :)
That is a macro lens with a long focal length. If I use the entire lens stack, I would see only a small spot on the wall, not an aureole like I got in the video. There was no other choice to make it work. So the only last lens had to stay...
In reality, the ring is attached to a mechanisms that adjust the lens optic system for the image to be in focus. So these 16 modes are used for some kind of feedback, I guess. You could watch any review of this lens to see that when the ring is rotated, the lens extends. Unfortunately, I could not show this on the video because the lens was broken when bought it and was not working at all, mechanically and electronically. Hope I have answered your question :)
@@VEC7ORlt I should remove the filter (film) to get white color. But without a filter result is much worse. So idk what do you mean by saying "all the bits are in there" 😅
@@NickElectronics you should have added a white channel - all the control bits are there - you've added the micro, made boards. Alternatively you could have replaced the LED with a RGBW or RGBY, you can do pretty cool stuff with those.
@@VEC7ORlt White color passing through a color film becomes not white. How should i have turned it into white? Only by placing white diode above the film and adding another PCB.
.Ужасни русский английский, где вы видите в англоязычном мире что The - зет ,а не дет ........ужасно слушать такое ,как да никто из вас не был в США или Англии. Второе он лёгкий потому что основа наш язык.....
Camera lens had been broken and cost me 5$. I wouldn`t dare destroying a new one 😅
That's an elegant, highly engineered solution. I'm not so talented. I would just get a rear lens cap, cut the back off and epoxy on a ring to slip over an LED lamp or flashlight.
Thats an option. And use original remote for its control for example
I've never heard anybody play the jazz screwdriver before this. Awesome. Cheers!
@@brandontylerburt Ahah, thanks for the feedback :D Jazz is cool 😎
as a photographer this enlights my heart
this is a cool sunset lamp in 2024.
i had a sunset lamp around 1998. it was an old slide projector with a 100W halogen bulb and different camera filters in there instead of slides.
there was one or two combinations of filters that looked like real sunsets with similar brightness.
The physics is the same, only technology has improved since then-from halogen to LEDs! 😄
I was 1 year old ad 1998 btw, hahah :D
@@NickElectronics it sure has, but i still use halogen for my desk. its great for reading color codes.
@@echelonrank3927 Does it has better CRI than LEDs?
@@NickElectronics yes, its CRI is 100
@ Yes, then it is obviously better :D
You K-tip your SMD passives, both pads at a time? You’re a braver man than I. Pad-by-pad with a D12 is my go-to, and you’ll want to do the same if you end up having to solder in tighter quarters.
I think if I had to solder a lot of components close to each other now, I'd use a stencil and an oven. Do I have an oven? No :D
But I'd buy one. Or make one. I'm a bit lazy and like efficiency, ahahaa :)
thought u gonna use the lens optics too that would be sick, next level lamp nonetheless
I just couldn't, because with this lens optics, I would only have a small spot on the wall. To make it work with real optics, I had to use a short focal-length lens that somewhat disperses the light. Then it would have worked, but such lenses are very short in height. So electronics would not fit :(
Wow, you should patent this design, for sure!
It looks amazing 😻
I’ll definitely buy one, if it will be available
Great video, I didn’t even know about the electronic signals from focus ring 😅
Yo, how are you doing, dude?)))))))
@@NickElectronics Good)
Still living in Kyiv, flexing around and code smart-contracts😁
Nice to see you doing great 🙌🏽
That's an absolutely wonderful idea! I love it.
@@SpudsMac Thanks a lot for the feedback :)
9:06 "Men with screwdrivers. Turning things. And ad-justing them."
I hate you a little bit.😄 This looks so good!!!! My sister is a photographer and I like this Kind of technology/ Idea. Now I'm looking for broken lenses just to build that! But I also know how difficult it will be again, but the inner hellhound wants to build it now. I don't have your experience with the PCBA or battery, so I have to try it without a battery and with an Arduino Pro. But thank you for this great idea, it just looks great! And this is actually my first comment on UA-cam. Subscription was immediate! I love people who can build creative, great things and usefull things like you. Thank you. But still kind of hate you. Cause I know how complikated this will be. 😂👍
Ahahaha! I'm so glad you liked it enough to want to build it without any prior experience. That's quite brave of you! To save some time, you could probably eliminate all the control features and keep the original remote to turn the lamp on and off and change the modes. In that case, you would only need to make a hole for a USB-C connector, which you can buy pre-soldered to the PCB.
Perhaps you could place the lamp remote in another photography accessory, like a camera flash remote or something similar. Anyway, if you need some guidance, feel free to ask. And good luck. Dont hate me please, ahahaha
Great video! Just found this channel and really love both the types of projects you do, and the quality of videos you make for them. Keep up the great work!
@@tarvankrieken Thank you a lot for the feedback :)
Man this is really amazing, I can't wait for the new video!
Nice view! Waiting for the new episodes! ❤
Really cool shots! Nice story telling. Would just be nice if you explain a bit more how gray code works and how you process the signals.
But besides that really amazing. dont know how you can only have 1.6k subs
Hello. Thank you 🙂 I wanted to make video more dynamic, that is why i did not include detailed explanations.
Gray code feature is that only “one bit changes when the slider moves from one position to another”. So from 0 to 1 is “000” to “001”, from 1 to 2 is “001” to “011“. Between two numbers the difference is only 1 bit. Why its better? Because when signal is measured with a microcontroller, slider can be moved at the middle of reading process. Which in case of a binary code leads to a reading mistakes. Cause two bits in adjacent numbers can change simultaneously. With the gray code, even when slider is moved at the middle of the data reading, you either get a previous position or the one the slider was moved to 🧐
Then i just connect contacts of the slider to the pins of the microcontroller. Only 4 pins are needed. After reading those pins (getting 0 or 1) it is just a simple if condition in the code :) For example, if all signals measured are 0000 - first position and first lamp mode.
Hopefully my answer was not too long :)
Have a great day 🌞
@@NickElectronics No worries AS a Software Developer i find this the Most interesting in such Videos. But makes sense abreally beautiful and well designed lamp! I really Like the controls.imagine this with a clicky aperture Ring haha
@@GamingClubGermany Hehe. Thanks again. If by 'clicky aperture ring' you mean purely mechanical ones that old lenses have, yeah, it would be problematic to read signals withot a signals even existing))
This video was way too good for 300 views in the first day. Bravo
Hello, thank you very much 😊 I am really
glad you liked it, cause I put a lot of effort in it 🌞 Next ones are going to be the same quality or even better :)
amazing. just found your channel. instant subscribed. looking forward to more videos. good luck
Awesome, thank you! There's got to be a lot of cool stuff in here! :)
This it awesome. Would like to see one with all the lenses.
I tried it with all the lenses inside the lens body, but the light spot spot was too small for a regular room 🙂
I love it ❤
Thank you ❤️
nice, i have very old objective, but no skillz 🤣
t's not rocket science. 🙃 You can always keep the remote to control the lamp and skip the programming part completely.
Like it
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im disapointed that the light doesnt go thru the lens stack :(
That is a macro lens with a long focal length. If I use the entire lens stack, I would see only a small spot on the wall, not an aureole like I got in the video. There was no other choice to make it work. So the only last lens had to stay...
if the focus ring only has 16 values how is it infinitely variable?
In reality, the ring is attached to a mechanisms that adjust the lens optic system for the image to be in focus. So these 16 modes are used for some kind of feedback, I guess. You could watch any review of this lens to see that when the ring is rotated, the lens extends. Unfortunately, I could not show this on the video because the lens was broken when bought it and was not working at all, mechanically and electronically. Hope I have answered your question :)
@@NickElectronics so it uses multiple passes of the 16 values to know forward back and speed of change , make sense thanks
Such a cool idea and implementation, sub from me!
Awesome, thank you!
Too bad it doesn't produce actual white light...
Yep. Because of a colorful film filter 🫠 But sunset lamps usually used as a second light, not the main one. So idk if it is a really big problem
@@NickElectronics all the bits are in there already, might as well add the white channel.
@@VEC7ORlt I should remove the filter (film) to get white color. But without a filter result is much worse. So idk what do you mean by saying "all the bits are in there" 😅
@@NickElectronics you should have added a white channel - all the control bits are there - you've added the micro, made boards.
Alternatively you could have replaced the LED with a RGBW or RGBY, you can do pretty cool stuff with those.
@@VEC7ORlt White color passing through a color film becomes not white. How should i have turned it into white? Only by placing white diode above the film and adding another PCB.
.Ужасни русский английский, где вы видите в англоязычном мире что The - зет ,а не дет ........ужасно слушать такое ,как да никто из вас не был в США или Англии. Второе он лёгкий потому что основа наш язык.....