Hello Everyone,
I am so lucky I stumbled on to this forum, my brain is numb form all the information I have read here Thanks!
I'll try to keep it short so here is what I want to do. I want to light my motorcycle with LED's. I know there are sites that sell the packages already
but I want to learn more about electronics / Micro controllers too.
I have searched these forums and haven't quite seen anything like this, had some neat other projects that were somewhat similar though.
So I am pretty sure a uC is going to be used, I have the Stamp2 kit but would not mind learning PIC or AVR. I have done some C coding in the past and not to shabby with perl or Unix shells. If you could direct me to a nice starter kit in either one I would be thankful.
Now I already have a couple thoughts on how to get this completed.
I know it's going to be a 12 - 14V power supply and I was going to put together 4 - 6 LEDs on a circuit board and seal them with hot glue / silicon
I figured the main circuit with the uC would be by the battery and have cable connects for the LED Packs. I have also thought about a wireless control to switch programs if that is not to difficult. But a switch would work as well.
I'm not sure if the LED packs should be all one color (4 red) or 2 of each color (2 red, 2 blue, 2 green and 2 purple) I do believe you could really get some nice lighting effects though with multi color packs. I'm open to you idea's and suggestions here, I would like to keep it simple.
I would have 1 pack shining on front wheel, one pack shining on front of engine, 4 packs (1 on each side) of the top and bottom of engine and 1 pack on back wheel and 1 on back of engine for 6 packs total. I guess the size of the packs would be 4 - 6 LED in a series setup, or 8 with multi-color.
So which uC would be easy and inexpensive for me to do this? I will need a programmer as well. I'm not sure if I will need more circuit parts for fading / chasing the leds.I am also not sure if the power should come from the control unit or if it should trigger a triac / SCR built into the LED pod.
Thank you for any advice you can offer.
Tallan
I am so lucky I stumbled on to this forum, my brain is numb form all the information I have read here Thanks!
I'll try to keep it short so here is what I want to do. I want to light my motorcycle with LED's. I know there are sites that sell the packages already
but I want to learn more about electronics / Micro controllers too.
I have searched these forums and haven't quite seen anything like this, had some neat other projects that were somewhat similar though.
So I am pretty sure a uC is going to be used, I have the Stamp2 kit but would not mind learning PIC or AVR. I have done some C coding in the past and not to shabby with perl or Unix shells. If you could direct me to a nice starter kit in either one I would be thankful.
Now I already have a couple thoughts on how to get this completed.
I know it's going to be a 12 - 14V power supply and I was going to put together 4 - 6 LEDs on a circuit board and seal them with hot glue / silicon
I figured the main circuit with the uC would be by the battery and have cable connects for the LED Packs. I have also thought about a wireless control to switch programs if that is not to difficult. But a switch would work as well.
I'm not sure if the LED packs should be all one color (4 red) or 2 of each color (2 red, 2 blue, 2 green and 2 purple) I do believe you could really get some nice lighting effects though with multi color packs. I'm open to you idea's and suggestions here, I would like to keep it simple.
I would have 1 pack shining on front wheel, one pack shining on front of engine, 4 packs (1 on each side) of the top and bottom of engine and 1 pack on back wheel and 1 on back of engine for 6 packs total. I guess the size of the packs would be 4 - 6 LED in a series setup, or 8 with multi-color.
So which uC would be easy and inexpensive for me to do this? I will need a programmer as well. I'm not sure if I will need more circuit parts for fading / chasing the leds.I am also not sure if the power should come from the control unit or if it should trigger a triac / SCR built into the LED pod.
Thank you for any advice you can offer.
Tallan