grrr_arrghh
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Hi
I am thinking of making some of those drumsticks with LEDs in the ends. The way I see it, I can carefully drill out the inside of the drumstick, and put all the circuitry and batteries inside the (now hollow) stick.
The drilling may be interesting, but I can handle that.
It gets complicated. I would like it to have a mode where it is always on (easy) and one where it flashes (also very easy to do). The hard bit is making a mode where it flashes in time to the music…
The only way I can see of doing this is to have a circuit with a mic, that will turn the LED on and off in time to the music (in time with the drumming, hopefully…). However, that seems like a lot of components to fit inside a drumstick (probably only a cm or two in diameter). So, the only was I can think of to avoid having all this inside the stick is to have a circuit that broadcasts the signal to the drumstick telling it when to flash. However, the receiver would probably have quite a high component count, and may interfere with the sound system.
This is all assuming that it is quite easy to make a circuit that will make the LED flash in time to the music?
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks
Tim
I am thinking of making some of those drumsticks with LEDs in the ends. The way I see it, I can carefully drill out the inside of the drumstick, and put all the circuitry and batteries inside the (now hollow) stick.
The drilling may be interesting, but I can handle that.
It gets complicated. I would like it to have a mode where it is always on (easy) and one where it flashes (also very easy to do). The hard bit is making a mode where it flashes in time to the music…
The only way I can see of doing this is to have a circuit with a mic, that will turn the LED on and off in time to the music (in time with the drumming, hopefully…). However, that seems like a lot of components to fit inside a drumstick (probably only a cm or two in diameter). So, the only was I can think of to avoid having all this inside the stick is to have a circuit that broadcasts the signal to the drumstick telling it when to flash. However, the receiver would probably have quite a high component count, and may interfere with the sound system.
This is all assuming that it is quite easy to make a circuit that will make the LED flash in time to the music?
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks
Tim