Running through some of my patterns. At about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJSKtnN5us&t=1m45s I’m running the fire pattern with: LavaColors_p, cooling = 10, sparking = 220) then after PartyColors_p, cooling = 40, sparking = 220.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVJSKtnN5us&t=0m20s that is beautiful!
Gets pretty cool around the 50 second mark ;D
I want one so bad. Even if I don’t know how to use it. -_-
I saw him rolling around on this thing. Up and down, and all over. I’m wondering how the fingers don’t get squished.
Yeah, thanks all! I spent most of yesterday dealing with some SD card reading issues, and then I had a short somewhere in the wire. I had to remove a connector and go for direct soldering to solve it. Took me like 6 hours to get it all straightened out…
Stunning!! I want to see it in motion.
Your using WS2812’s right? Do those cause a headache coding for a SD card? How much animation data is on the MCU if none? I’m curious, because I have a SD shield starring me in the face today, and I would like to start implementing it into my rig. What library did you end up using? Thanks for the info!
O and great work on the wheel!
@Jon_Burroughs Yes, WS2812…not the B’s, but it probably doesn’t make a difference. Originally I was seeking out the B’s but ordered them from AliExpress and got the first version. In the end, they are okay. Coding for the SD card….well, the problems I mainly have are with read/write errors. I’ve been struggling with them a lot, but I think I have them pretty much figured out. Info at: http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2014/09/sd-card-errors-with-arduino-teensy-3-0/ .
Which library for what part? I’m using SD, SDFat for the SD card stuff (both slightly modified to fix problems – they are on my public GitHub account, corbinstreehouse), I wrote my own LED pattern library. It utilizes FastLED for all the operations, but the “backend” is abstracted and I can use FastLED, NeoPixel (heavily modified – also on github), or OctoWS2811 (although I can’t use that one in my wheel because of pin uses). I also use L3G_Pololu and LSM303_Pololu. That’s it.
@Erin_St_Blaine – I have videos of me using it on my youtube page; check em out!