Trex 600 electric heli with 600mm programmable night blades from a company in Germany - NightGraphix - that is unfortunately no longer in business. Each blade has 48 led lights. The designs are programmed by creating b/w bitmap images and then using a special program to upload them to a controller on each blade. The leds are triggered by the blade controllers that read signals from stationary led sensors under each blade and a magnetic sensor mounted to the autorotation gear. Pretty slick!
The Christmas designs on the blades in this flight were done in hopes of getting the heli onto the NBC 4 news segment "Fritz's Holiday Lights" that airs in Southern California.
Look up 'propeller clock', and this idea is relatively obvious. Being a PIC microcontroller programmer, I thought of doing the same way back in the mid-90's.
But arrived at this conclusion even before bothering:
"that is unfortunately no longer in business."
The market and profit would be very small, and the complexity and effort relatively high. A little easier now with the LED strips, but still not likely to be worth doing as a business.
ModelLights 1 week ago
nice light effect
ih1209 2 months ago
Has anyone thought of that as a UFO?.....I think it looks like one from far away
aldrin2598 2 months ago
This was the best I've seen yet. Thank you so much for sharing.
Bynum4life 3 months ago
So cool, after i learn my coaxial heli and get something bigger i must have this lol
BoY860 4 months ago
spectacular ....
never seen anything like it.
very nice
AntonioTufano 4 months ago
Show... Lindissimo..!!
patrick75carioca 5 months ago
waowwwwwww nice very very very very very very ......; nice
megatech59 6 months ago
merry xmas
ghosttjr2 6 months ago
nice!!!! very cool.
gustavoamil 7 months ago