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SwarfnStuff:
Well Shipto,
   You keep plugging away at the carousel and we will keep waiting for the next installment with keen anticipation.
Thanks for posting.

I Can relate to the fact that the other stuff you need to do gets in the way of spending time learning to program the Arduino. I have played with the idea of getting one of those Arduino kits and playing / learning that way but life continues to interfere with many of my little plans. Oh Well.
John B

shipto:
Kind of success with the arduino coding I have it reading some numbers from a txt file on a sd card and sending the resulting binary out to the shift registers just need to figure out why it's quitting after about five minutes now.

This mock-up is only using two of the six shift registers but it gives a idea of the kind of effect I will get from the full thing.

shipto:
Definate success  :ddb:
I have altered the code and it now works and I have even figured out how to do away with the delay() so the arduino can now control the lights and the motor speed at the same time wanted it to control the music too but I think this may be a bit ambititous for someone like myself who is basically hacking bits of code together.
this video is taken after it has been running for about 10 minutes and is still running as I type this:

DMIOM:
Bravo!  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Noitoen:
Ancient fair rides I used to service had some simple 8 channel light sequencers that were made with a simple EPROM and a binary counter. The 8 bit data on the EPROM was programmed with the sequence and the counter with a simple oscillator sequenced a few dozen of addresses in the memory in an endless loop. With 8 high power static relays they drove hundreds of little lamps around the ride.

Now a days they use computers and a data bus like modern stage lighting to control multicolored led walls.

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