The soldering on the backside of the first LED board actually looked so much like art, it's almost a pity that one can't see it on the finished product.
I really enjoyed this! I've used clear plastic that was lightly sanded on the insidede to diffuse light as well, works great. Here's a fun custom trick of mine! I've done custom auto body for ages. I can change the color of instrumentation inside the car. The best thing, is to go to the candy isle at the store. Many colorful and semi translucent colors of plastic are available for candy containers, as well as some disposable plastic drink containers as well. I also use colored reflectors for bicycles that have the backing removed. I remove the gauge panel and carefully disassemble it, then I carefully chop out the blue for brights indicator, then the green for signal flasher and so on, then I trim out the bits of disposable translucent colored plastic I want to use and glue them in place carefully. My car has yellow signal indicators now, the others are all different as well. Using colored bicycle reflectors is cool too, because they have a textured pattern that adds a new dimension as well. Have fun!
I have actually held the original prop in my hands during an exhibiton about all of Kubrick's work in the Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam back in 2012. It was awesome, they also had the rocket from Dr. Strangelove :)
Marinus i just saw 2001 for the first time in a movie theater to celeberate the 50th anaversary of the movie. I wished i had never watched it before.... cheers!
Makes me wanna build some props, you know what cool? In the states cops had computers (called data terminals) in their cars back in the 1980s... old amber screens etc.... that would be a cool prop!
Of course they are not blue leds anymore. They are supernanoturbo driven neutron observer neotitanic fluid xentopic imagery catalysts... They just seem to be blue leds to us 😁
The random blinking LED lamp looks incredible. I really want to see what are you going to do with all those meters and switches. PC fan controllers? Hard drive activity diodes? Your project will beat every fancy and expensive gaming PC case.
My WS2812B matrix was labeled wrong. So the DOUT was actually the data in. (Also note, that these modules are very sensitive for voltage peaks, so a benchtop power supply can damage it.)
I actually don't like "useless" things, if I made this project I would have tried to make things with an actual use while still looking sci-fi, but good job anyway!
A cheap shower curtain works well as a good diffusing material and you can use it in many sizes or layers to get a good effect. You can even colour the curtain to use with various white LED's to get the desired effect.
The LED matrix behind the paper looked amazing. You might get some interesting light effects using the various plastic layers from an old LCD panel as well.
You could find a LCD screen, disassemble it to remove the backlight, then slide it into the slide viewer so you use the original lamp for the backlight
One of the best effects I've seen is basically the same thing you did except using a compact disc instead of the circuit board so the lights reflect off the CDs surface colored mirror effect.
I would use the RGB matrix to display some dynamic yet not very useful info as bar graphs: - speed of typing in the last seconds - weight of the user :) - CPU usage - fan speed - etc.
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You have just as crazy and creative ideas, just as I have, always surprising non creative people around.
A quick note on those 5V LEDs: You can just take the same Power Supply you use for the Arduino. USB is already 5V, so no need for a second PSU. Just don't go overboard, and look at the PSU to not overload it.
I've used similar LEDs (RGB fast fading) and have found that putting a capacitor in parallel (I used a low voltage 2200uF), will allow the ICs to keep their state while powered off.
..and you listed half-baked "Instructables" instead of Neopixel uberguide from adafruit. This half-baked half-done "instructions" ALWAYS forget about resistor and ~1000uF capacitor. It is actually lifesavers for neopixels matrixes. You need to be 200% sure that matrix from random assembler from China have a resistor before first LED. Some strips have both resistor and capacitor on each LED, but usually it's just a capacitor. So if something went slightly wrong, first "pixel" will die and all matrix went down.
11:30 Honestly this reminds me more of the OLD Star Trek William Shatner era series type FX. Nice job :) In fact when looking at it I can almost hear the sound FX
Great work You should try the capsense library on the arduino - you could make it hypersensitive and get it to react when you move your hand up to 10 20 .. maybe 30 cm away
I'm sitting here humming the theme to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It's a lovely period sci-fi effect you've acheived. I'll have to give it a go with some of the random lenses I've accumulated.
Those are so fun! Amazing what a little bit of lensing or color filtering will do to enhance the effect. For those jumbo green ones, would an 8mm neo pixel fit the bill? Or keep the green plastic caps but line up some mono white strips behind them.
If you have not closed the slot in the slide viewer, try to insert a some slide to the test. The best is something related to post-apo, space or sci-fi. The effect can be interesting.
This channel rocks! Come on people. Urge this man to make more videos! Don’t know about y’all, I consider this channel top 3 in my subscriptions. Keep up the good work Mein Freund
you should add a vintage cpu such as a z80. just the cpu with leds and switches to give single instructions. That way you can get cool blinken lights and a binary counter etc.
Pretty cool, I had thought to do something like this but hadn't gotten around to it. I bought some switches and lights. Seeing what you added I might need to look for some more cool stuff to add. I was thinking a Firefly Serenity look.
The large signal lamp with those LED's inside looks like it would make a good 'Star trek Enterprise' engine, with the old slide viewer, how about putting a graphics LCD/OLED module in there with a radar scope simulation running on it.
Nice project! I love the signal light idea, it looks like digital fire! As you apparently intend to play some games or possibly even listen to music on your console, may I suggest that you add some old-school sound reactive disco lighting? The tradition was for 2 sets (one for each speaker) of 3 lights, red for bass, green for mid, and blue or yellow for treble, and I loved them as a kid!
There are some russian ones that are pretty cheap but look good, only disadvantage is that those mercury free ones does not last wery long, but the russian tubes often last much longer then their specs say.
I hawe some of those, i think i got my last batch from Ukraine, so there shall still be pretty lot of surplus valves left, the USSSR made Nixies until the middle of the 80s so they where pretty common there.
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It looks kinda like something from Star Trek!
There is a computer screen saver of the HAL 9000 console > www.screensaversplanet.com/screensavers/hal-9000-301/
The soldering on the backside of the first LED board actually looked so much like art, it's almost a pity that one can't see it on the finished product.
Yet it's a crazy slow and wasteful way to wire things up.
I really enjoyed this! I've used clear plastic that was lightly sanded on the insidede to diffuse light as well, works great.
Here's a fun custom trick of mine!
I've done custom auto body for ages. I can change the color of instrumentation inside the car. The best thing, is to go to the candy isle at the store. Many colorful and semi translucent colors of plastic are available for candy containers, as well as some disposable plastic drink containers as well. I also use colored reflectors for bicycles that have the backing removed. I remove the gauge panel and carefully disassemble it, then I carefully chop out the blue for brights indicator, then the green for signal flasher and so on, then I trim out the bits of disposable translucent colored plastic I want to use and glue them in place carefully.
My car has yellow signal indicators now, the others are all different as well. Using colored bicycle reflectors is cool too, because they have a textured pattern that adds a new dimension as well.
Have fun!
acetone vapor also works with some plastic! just leave it suspended above an acetone bottle overnight.
This project is so cool
Should put a small display inside
Did you know the original HAL9000 was made with a Nikon 8mm lens?
Marinus omg i have never thought of that!
Crap, now i need to find one.
I have actually held the original prop in my hands during an exhibiton about all of Kubrick's work in the Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam back in 2012. It was awesome, they also had the rocket from Dr. Strangelove :)
Marinus i just saw 2001 for the first time in a movie theater to celeberate the 50th anaversary of the movie. I wished i had never watched it before.... cheers!
Makes me wanna build some props, you know what cool? In the states cops had computers (called data terminals) in their cars back in the 1980s... old amber screens etc.... that would be a cool prop!
I think the best LED effect is a bunch of self-blinking LEDs in a panel! 👍 Ah, that satisfying randomness... 😏
Cool project but i think it would look better without blue LEDs as they weren't available in the 80's
That may be true but he did go though a fair bit of effort to make them not look like LEDs.
Of course they are not blue leds anymore. They are supernanoturbo driven neutron observer neotitanic fluid xentopic imagery catalysts... They just seem to be blue leds to us 😁
exactly
Spawny eyed wazzock at least 😂
Wow, this is going to be one cool project when it's done very nice.
And I also recognised that slide viewer right away. yep, I'm old.
The random blinking LED lamp looks incredible. I really want to see what are you going to do with all those meters and switches. PC fan controllers? Hard drive activity diodes? Your project will beat every fancy and expensive gaming PC case.
Schön. Hat so einen richtig nostalgischen Scifi Touch. Mit ganz vielen sinnlos blinkenden Lichtern Gefällt mir echt gut.
My WS2812B matrix was labeled wrong. So the DOUT was actually the data in. (Also note, that these modules are very sensitive for voltage peaks, so a benchtop power supply can damage it.)
I actually don't like "useless" things, if I made this project I would have tried to make things with an actual use while still looking sci-fi, but good job anyway!
A cheap shower curtain works well as a good diffusing material and you can use it in many sizes or layers to get a good effect.
You can even colour the curtain to use with various white LED's to get the desired effect.
Nice, add a chair that moves on rails from one position to another... Do not forget to add old school slotted speaker fronts tobthe console.
Painting with light; very cool. The diffuseness reminded me of the flickering Krell power supply in the film, Forbidden Planet.
The LED matrix behind the paper looked amazing. You might get some interesting light effects using the various plastic layers from an old LCD panel as well.
Old school GC rogue squadron ftw...you are my spirit animal.
That red stoplight matrix is really cool. I enjoyed this video. Even the basic stuff like what resister to use was helpful to me.
You could find a LCD screen, disassemble it to remove the backlight, then slide it into the slide viewer so you use the original lamp for the backlight
Love this. I always wanted to build an ‘Orac’ from Blake’s Seven.
One of the best effects I've seen is basically the same thing you did except using a compact disc instead of the circuit board so the lights reflect off the CDs surface colored mirror effect.
I see, they are not just useless electronic art pieces but they serve a function that lets you know that you have power.
I would use the RGB matrix to display some dynamic yet not very useful info as bar graphs:
- speed of typing in the last seconds
- weight of the user :)
- CPU usage
- fan speed
- etc.
You have just as crazy and creative ideas, just as I have, always surprising non creative people around.
A quick note on those 5V LEDs: You can just take the same Power Supply you use for the Arduino. USB is already 5V, so no need for a second PSU. Just don't go overboard, and look at the PSU to not overload it.
i thought the same thing, lol
I've used similar LEDs (RGB fast fading) and have found that putting a capacitor in parallel (I used a low voltage 2200uF), will allow the ICs to keep their state while powered off.
WOW the first one come out really NICE. Really took advantage of the deviation of each led. COOL look and super simple.
This is so cool! I'm hard as hell to impress, but those lights are basically art.
Excellent project
Amazing Build.... Can't wait to see the follow up videos and finally the completed console desk!
Use the sheets from modern LCD color screens they difuse light perfectly.
*yay* for shorter videos on individual aspects of larger projects, keep them coming! :)
These props remind me of the old Star Trek episodes
That slide viewer could make an interesting display if, instead of LEDs, you put a small LCD or OLED screen behind it!
Love em. Great effect and use of flashing LEDs
Of course we love it!
Oh wow, those came out great! I think I have a slide-viewer somewhere myself, would be fun to put a tiny screen in it!
Congratulations, I see one of your old projects made Hackaday. You should appear there more often.
These look really cool... but I think they would be even cooler if made into practical displays in some way or another.
Wow im looking forward to seeing this build
Really neat desk idea love the led stuff never saw the self blinking red ones before
Great job! My new favorite channel!!!
..and you listed half-baked "Instructables" instead of Neopixel uberguide from adafruit. This half-baked half-done "instructions" ALWAYS forget about resistor and ~1000uF capacitor. It is actually lifesavers for neopixels matrixes. You need to be 200% sure that matrix from random assembler from China have a resistor before first LED. Some strips have both resistor and capacitor on each LED, but usually it's just a capacitor. So if something went slightly wrong, first "pixel" will die and all matrix went down.
Thanks for the tip, the number of dodgy instructables out there is crazy, no limit resistors, bypass caps etc etc etc.
Super Cool project no doubt ! Congratulations once again !
11:30 Honestly this reminds me more of the OLD Star Trek William Shatner era series type FX. Nice job :) In fact when looking at it I can almost hear the sound FX
This is very cool-looking. I watched the video twice. Can't wait to see the finished product.
2:00 the slider on the right of the widescreen is PERFECT for a volume control thro windows using some arduino stuff
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eew windows, lol jk. Linux, Windows, and Mac OS are all good operating systems, but i prefer Linux.
still a cool idea though
I feel like you need to run Conway's game of life on the large matrix. It never fails to look cool.
I love your light designs!
Das Blinkenlightzen!
Great work
You should try the capsense library on the arduino - you could make it hypersensitive and get it to react when you move your hand up to 10 20 .. maybe 30 cm away
Very early starfleet and hawkwind looking . Like it lots. Still wouldn't like to control a warp core with it, but,hey ho. Very good
Love this series, this is so a bit of me!
Waauw :) Amazing projects! Very inspiring. Can't wait to see the next part!
I'm sitting here humming the theme to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. It's a lovely period sci-fi effect you've acheived. I'll have to give it a go with some of the random lenses I've accumulated.
I would put a Green OLED display behind the slide projector instead of the LEDS.
That signal light is awesome!!
Ufff, esta increible tu proyecto!!!
Great interesting project
looking good mate. loving your attention to detail
Those are so fun! Amazing what a little bit of lensing or color filtering will do to enhance the effect. For those jumbo green ones, would an 8mm neo pixel fit the bill? Or keep the green plastic caps but line up some mono white strips behind them.
If you have not closed the slot in the slide viewer, try to insert a some slide to the test.
The best is something related to post-apo, space or sci-fi.
The effect can be interesting.
Pretty sweet Project
....soon you'll be able to rent out your creation as a prop for tv or films!
This channel rocks! Come on people. Urge this man to make more videos!
Don’t know about y’all, I consider this channel top 3 in my subscriptions.
Keep up the good work Mein Freund
Gerolf I hope it’s a beautiful woman keeping you from hammering out these videos... keep them coming
The first one reminds me of the computer display "Zen" from Blakes 7 ..
you should add a vintage cpu such as a z80. just the cpu with leds and switches to give single instructions. That way you can get cool blinken lights and a binary counter etc.
Pretty cool, I had thought to do something like this but hadn't gotten around to it. I bought some switches and lights. Seeing what you added I might need to look for some more cool stuff to add. I was thinking a Firefly Serenity look.
The signal light is beautiful.
Always good to see you and your projects. Thank you.
That's looks Wicked
Very cool Project! Please use decatron bulbs. They're amazing.
Just had a bad idea, possibly good... I think I might make something similar and put it inside my cars taillights as the Parker lights.
Cant wait to see the finished desk. idea's are looking great thus far.
The large signal lamp with those LED's inside looks like it would make a good 'Star trek Enterprise' engine, with the old slide viewer, how about putting a graphics LCD/OLED module in there with a radar scope simulation running on it.
Wow ! ☺
Awesome stuff
I would have mounted the larger optical stuff deeper but you may have done it for reasons. Awesome project. Looking forward to more!
Great stuff! Love your ideas.
Great stuff! Really interesting video, thanks!
wow, that looks very Star Trek Original Series. :D
Love it! Please keep posting!
Amazing project so far! Can't wait to see the finished product! Keep up the great work!
Nice project! I love the signal light idea, it looks like digital fire! As you apparently intend to play some games or possibly even listen to music on your console, may I suggest that you add some old-school sound reactive disco lighting? The tradition was for 2 sets (one for each speaker) of 3 lights, red for bass, green for mid, and blue or yellow for treble, and I loved them as a kid!
iv been waiting for a tutorial like this all my life. i would love a sci fi effect computer desk :)
This project is so cool, wish I could make one for myself... Please keep sharing it with us
should be an interesting project
Awesome
Ze buttons Zhey do Nozing!
Very cool
Very nice, looking forward for the next videos. Thumbs UP
I really like this series, i'm exited to see the finished product
properly love it
Very cool! / Sehr schönes Projekt!
You nailec it, looks great!
Fantastic man.
cool dude blessings in your a+++ build
It would cool to use some nixie tubes in this project
There are some russian ones that are pretty cheap but look good, only disadvantage is that those mercury free ones does not last wery long, but the russian tubes often last much longer then their specs say.
I hawe some of those, i think i got my last batch from Ukraine, so there shall still be pretty lot of surplus valves left, the USSSR made Nixies until the middle of the 80s so they where pretty common there.
Really awesome looking project thanks for documenting it
Love it!
This is very cool!
Great Video ! now i have a Idea for decoration for my Living Room.
Is it possible to build a, lets say, 8x8x8 led cube out of such blinking leds ?