Next House Party System Light Setup

All that's left to do is install it on the walls. IMPULSE, on 2/19/11 at 10pm will debut the lighting system.

We used RGB and white LEDs from DealExtreme.

Thanks to everyone for the hard work they put into this project.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• next make
• mit
• lighting system
• party
• lights
• led
• tlc
• dealextreme
• strobe
• dance

[OKheroes]

On your project page you state "It is capable of driving up to 15 channels at 360mA each". I was looking at the TLC5940 datasheet and it states 120mA per channel..am I missing something blindingly obvious here? looking to make something kind of similar in the future

[joeyjwc]

@OKheroes The entire LED driver board can drive 15 channels at 360mA. The LED driver board contains 3 TLC5940s and each chip has its outputs tied in groups of 3, with the 16th output tied to ground since it is ignored. So that's (15 channels on the TLC / tied in groups of 3) * (3 TLCs).

[music637]

this is fantastic. how many people helped out? i have a similar project and i'm trying to gauge the work....

[joeyjwc]

@music637 There were 5 of us who did the bulk of the design and construction, but I'd say about a dozen people contributed to some of the construction time. As for the time frame, we did most of the construction in roughly 3 weeks and spent about 3 weeks before that doing design. The construction period involved a lot of all-nighters.

If you go to next-make (dot) mit (dot) edu (slash) wiki you can see our initial attempts at documenting what we did. We'll be updating this over the summer.

[OKheroes]

@joeyjwc Ah ha! Thank you, I should have looked at the schematic more carefully :) thanks for the quick reply!