Times Square Ball 2008 revealed
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I want that ball!!!!
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:D wow
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the ball is going to be twice the size :D
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2009 will be the best year ever i guess thats why the ball is bigger bc
1. obama is president
2. economy is improving
3. and 2009! lol
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Is Sam Gay?
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"it's supported by cables, i'm probably the first person to have done this;push the ball around.
sorry dude, i did it too.
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it needs to be bigger its America come on
cathole612 3 years ago
It is. This year it's twice as big (12 feet in diameter), with much of the hardware redesigned. I'm happy to say they're still using a derivative of my code. Sad to say I don't work there any more, so it's somebody else's project.
jjnonken 3 years ago
They had to rebuild the support structure -- you know, the pole and motors that move it up and down, and everything holding them up -- in order to handle the weight. (Remember, the weight increases as a cube of the diameter, so twice the diameter means 8 times the weight. And last year we had to be careful not to exceed the requirements, so obviously this year requires a rebuild.)
At this time, I'm told, the plan is to use this new version for several years.
jjnonken 3 years ago
"There are over 9,500 Philips Luxeon LEDs." 8064 Philips Luxeon K2s and 1512 Nichia Rigels, and Philips probably would rather you didn't know about the Rigels. (Those make up the white lines between the triangles.) Total: 9576 LEDs.
"A colour palette of 16 million colours..." It's more complicated than that, but close enough. I'd have said "over 16 million colours."
jjnonken 4 years ago
My mistake. Apparently it was 1512 Philips Rebels; I thought they were Nichia Rigels.
They're still not Luxeon K2s. :)
jjnonken 3 years ago
This is edited from the TV show, with the segments spliced together. No fades or dissolves, so the scenes jump abruptly, but it shouldn't be too hard to follow.
"...You're the first people to see it...." Not really, no. But close enough.
"I think I'm the only person ever to have done this. Pushed the ball around." Um, no, Sam. You're not even the first. (Though he might be the first to do the Atlas imitation. We had it hanging too low for that.)
jjnonken 4 years ago
Turns out one of the shop guys -- the one who used to lift weights -- did the Atlas thing first. So you can't even claim that, Sam.
jjnonken 3 years ago