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Since the microcontroller drew very little power and the LEDs were only on one-at-a-time, the batteries should last for days and days if left on continuously. The circuit was powered by two little AAA cells, so the voltage was about 3 volts DC. The other reason for doing it this way instead of a resistor was power consumption: The CCD is way more efficient that a resistor that dissipates heat to get the current to where it should be. This allowed me to use red, green, yellow, and orange LEDs, regardless of their required forward voltage, since the current was always 20 mA, which they all liked. The little CCD kept the current to 20 mA for each LED. 12 pins on the AVR are randomly set to be on during their time slice or off. To keep the current draw to a minimum (to prevent the AVR from cooking), I had all of the LEDs cathodes return to ground through a dinky little constant current devices (CCD) from ON Semiconductor (part number NSI45020T1G).
BIG PIPE TIMESLICE TV
It was programmed to strobe the LEDs (rifle through each of them and turn them on or off many times per second, like a TV scanline). The circuit was an Atmel® ATmega328 AVR® microcontroller (same one used in certain models of the Arduino). A simple momentary power-on functionality. The button was in between the batteries and the LED blinking circuit. Ya do what ya can in the time ya have, ya know? To crappily simulate leather wrapping on the handle, you can see in the image above that I took strips of Gorilla® tape and folded one edge, then wrapped up the handle at an angle. To be sure the button would be at least somewhat difficult to push through the handle, I jammed a piece of leftover green foam into the handle and behind the button before I closed up the back of the handle: I cut a hole for the button, then cut a BIG hole behind it to allow me access for glueing. I did this by embedding a standard pushbutton in the handle: It also needed a way for Mike to turn on and off the LEDs at will. I knew I'd eventually find a use for the pipe!Īt first, I wasn't going to get all electronicky on this thing, but it just didn't seem right to have a TECHNO HAMMER without random blinking LEDs on recycled circuit boards, so, this thing needed a circuit to make random LEDs blink.
BIG PIPE TIMESLICE UPGRADE
The handle is a piece of PVC pipe from my pool equipment upgrade last year. To sturdy up the thing and to keep it as lightweight as possible, I started with green foam from Michael's: I didn't have much time for any of these props, especially the HAMMER. We'll start with the biggest prop: Mike's Techno HAMMER (Highly Active Mike Moulton Energy Repeater).
BIG PIPE TIMESLICE FULL
I happen to be a major bourbon geek and had been sampling fine bourbons at a speakeasy in San Francisco called, " Bourbon & Branch" before I went back to the hotel and started submitting dozens of mostly silly ideas for meltmedia's new tag line.įor the short attention span version of this, here is a photo of the three partners of meltmedia in their full costumes with their props: Woohoo! To be clear, I am fueled by many things: Caffeine, sugar, soda, etc., not just bourbon.
While in San Francisco at the 2011 Apple World Wide Developer Conference, in a bourbon-fueled barrage of submissions to the company's on-line suggestion box for new company tag lines, I came up with, "We are Interactive Superheroes." It stuck and I won a $90 bottle of bourbon. Marketing was something melt hadn't worried about before then. Sometime back in 2011, meltmedia was in search of a new tag line to kick off a for-real live marketing campaign.
BIG PIPE TIMESLICE SOFTWARE
I believe I've mentioned it before: I work at an amazing web and software development shop called, " meltmedia." We have a gaggle of highly talented software engineers, web developers and designers.
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