Im going to use SMD 5050 lined up perpendicular to the edge of the plexiglass similar how i made my other columns. This is a video from my club during spanish night. Now, its not a great video but i dont have many on my phone. You can barely see the one column on the right and there is no baseline in this spanish song so they dont hit blue like they would when the base hits. Ill try and find a better video later on off my friends phone. This video right here is my example #1 above in action. Its the same code for the DJ facade, columns, and LED's around the ceiling.
There are much better videos on our instagram. Here is the link to the page if anyone wants to take a look at them too:
https://instagram.com/pulse_nightclub/
And here is a link directly to the column doing its thing:
https://instagram.com/p/ot3RvXSR_z/
I think i might have a gameplan though.
In my example number 1, the audio comes in to the MSGEQ7, out to the arduino, then from the arduino to 3 transistors for red, green, and blue colors which powers everything.
In example number 2, he uses one transistor as just power and runs that live wire to just the red connection so they only do red. He could have just run it to blue or green instead. Doesnt matter. Then he cuts down the voltage .6V per level of leds using a 1n914 diode across each line of transistors which gives it the equalizer look. I might have to try different diodes out to determine how much voltage i would want dropped over 10 levels.
But what im thinking is taking example number 1 and having 3 transistors for each line, so 30 transistors total. And then from example number 2, figuring out how he is dropping this voltage .6V to each line, tinkering with that until i get it perfect, and then just implementing that intentional voltage loss to each set of 3 transistors, for each line. So the signal would come out from arduino RGB and i would run that to one set of transistors just like for the columns but then id jumper that to another set of transistors using that diode to decrease the voltage.
Im not sure if this is doable because the transistors hes using in #2 differ from the transistors in #1. Other than that, i dont really see why it wont work, but, wtf do i know lol.
What do you think? Im i out of my mind? Or should i start ordering stuff and giving this a shot?