Hey there kids,
here's the deal: I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I can marginally read a circuit, as in I can understand interconnections and can recognize several symbols, but I probably won't know why anything is placed where it is. Pretty bleak, eh?
My idea is not very original in the fact that its architecture is a grayscale LED display. I need someone to walk me through the entire process so I don't get lost or have a terrible accident. (Please oh please god, somebody agree to commit to this!)
Concept: "Illuminated Human"
This is quite ambitious and stands as a true challenge. If it helps persuade someone with serious skill to sign-on, it'll probably be very quick and simple to design and build. Heads up: it requires multiple ICs.
This concept utilizes an LED matrix of an indeterminate size (one diode per square 0.5"). In its final form, the LED matrix is applied to or embedded within a garment of clothing. I have chosen to make a coat as the prototype's fashionable debut. The simplest explanation is as follows:
Information is read from a compact storage medium (possibly CompactFlash, etc) and stored in memory where it can be accessed in its entirity (without lag) by a microcontroller. The micro's job is to access memory and use it to display a grayscale image within the LED matrix. The micro and memory must be able to display full grayscale animation at 30fps for at least 30 seconds, preferrably 60 seconds. I plan on using the scanline method to display each frame. A touch-sensitive switch in the form of embroidered wire thread upon the cuff of one of the sleeves will turn the system on and off.
The major hurdle in this project is that all of the components must be engineered to take up the least amount of space possible, weigh the least amount of weight possible, and use energy as efficiently and/or sparsely as possible. Memory will be particularly intensive because of how much image data will need to be stored for each "pixel."
Most of the system design is oriented around the architecture of the microcontroller, memory, timing of animation, things like that. The actual display structure itself will probably be really simple and easy, albeit monotanous.
I don't have any plans of copyrighting this technology because it's too cool of an idea and too easy to build. But I do plan on selling custom shwag with this design and similar luminescent concepts (EL wire, strips.) So, I suppose being able to capitalize off of the final design is an added incentive. I know I'm gonna be "testing" the original every weekend. :twisted:
Always good to grab some attention...
Anybody want to help me build this really nifty thing?
+Q__
here's the deal: I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I can marginally read a circuit, as in I can understand interconnections and can recognize several symbols, but I probably won't know why anything is placed where it is. Pretty bleak, eh?
My idea is not very original in the fact that its architecture is a grayscale LED display. I need someone to walk me through the entire process so I don't get lost or have a terrible accident. (Please oh please god, somebody agree to commit to this!)
Concept: "Illuminated Human"
This is quite ambitious and stands as a true challenge. If it helps persuade someone with serious skill to sign-on, it'll probably be very quick and simple to design and build. Heads up: it requires multiple ICs.
This concept utilizes an LED matrix of an indeterminate size (one diode per square 0.5"). In its final form, the LED matrix is applied to or embedded within a garment of clothing. I have chosen to make a coat as the prototype's fashionable debut. The simplest explanation is as follows:
Information is read from a compact storage medium (possibly CompactFlash, etc) and stored in memory where it can be accessed in its entirity (without lag) by a microcontroller. The micro's job is to access memory and use it to display a grayscale image within the LED matrix. The micro and memory must be able to display full grayscale animation at 30fps for at least 30 seconds, preferrably 60 seconds. I plan on using the scanline method to display each frame. A touch-sensitive switch in the form of embroidered wire thread upon the cuff of one of the sleeves will turn the system on and off.
The major hurdle in this project is that all of the components must be engineered to take up the least amount of space possible, weigh the least amount of weight possible, and use energy as efficiently and/or sparsely as possible. Memory will be particularly intensive because of how much image data will need to be stored for each "pixel."
Most of the system design is oriented around the architecture of the microcontroller, memory, timing of animation, things like that. The actual display structure itself will probably be really simple and easy, albeit monotanous.
I don't have any plans of copyrighting this technology because it's too cool of an idea and too easy to build. But I do plan on selling custom shwag with this design and similar luminescent concepts (EL wire, strips.) So, I suppose being able to capitalize off of the final design is an added incentive. I know I'm gonna be "testing" the original every weekend. :twisted:
Always good to grab some attention...
Anybody want to help me build this really nifty thing?
+Q__