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shipto:
Thanks Matthew I still have things to do but I have to be careful of getting carried away and spoiling it with too much decoration.
Actually the pic is a little dark will have to retake it with the flash on.

shipto:
ok so I am pretty happy with my work on the top of the carousel and I have put it to one side to start on the body now. I drilled 96 holes in the top for the leds to go into or rather the leads of the leds will go through leaving the leds totally proud and made some trim pieces to go on each of the corners. I have drilled 8 holes in each and glued leds into those as well. in total it will have 192 leds by the time I have finished.
I have decided to use a arduino mega to control the carousel as it allows me to have 48 outputs for the lights leaving me with a couple to control speed and maybe music too. The main thing I cant decide is if I should have 48 sets of 4 lights which will allow me to control all the way around the carousel but limit the effects possible a little or 48 set of 2 lights and just have the lights on 3 of the sides mimic the lights on the controlled side which will allow for better lighting effects  :coffee: all assuming I can hack together enough code to do all I want to do.

SwarfnStuff:
Looking goodera and goodera Shipto. An interesting and well documented build that will look extra flash with the bling of dancing LEDs. Looking forward to the next installment.
John B

shipto:
Wires lots and lots of wires  :bang:
found a better way to control them with the arduino (dont even need the mega) shift registers 6 of them to be precise all just using 3 pins on the arduino.  :ddb:
so currently in the process of converting binary and noting down lots of numbers to feed the arduino hopefully from a file on a sd card.

shipto:
All 192 led's now have wires the top most ones have resisters in line under the heat shrink sleeving. If I had planned ahead I could have got the wires quite a bit neater but they will hopefully remain hidden for the life of the carousel so they will do, its a lesson learned for next time.
I really should sit down and learn the code needed for the arduino but every time I intend to give it some time I seem to think of something else I need to be doing  :doh:

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