Ow wow that sounds great! But is there any coding required? Doesn't sound easy at all
It would be so awesome if I could do that on my sculpture. Only thing is the circuit should be like the kipkay one...with images
Not symbols so that I can follow.
No programming required. The circuit will consist of 3 major parts:
-Portion of a 'Light Organ' Circuit that will be used to 'trigger' the neuron. Can be tested with a single LED.
-A 555 Timer to generate a 'clock' we can use as a timer to make the LEDs travel along the neuron.
-Shift Registers... these do the actual magic 'moving'...
I have 3 reference videos for you to show you what each part is.
We will not be using them exactly the same in the video.
What happens is this...
The first video is the light organ... you can see 3 colors of LEDs there... we will only build 1/3rd of that circuit, and instead of LEDs we will feed that into the shift register.
The second video shows how a shift register works. You give it a signal (on or off) and give it a 'clock', every time the clock ticks, it moves the signal to the next pin (Think of it like a conveyor belt). These parts can be daisy chained together to allow you to use as many LEDs as you want.
The third video is a simple 555 timer making an LED blink. This is the timer keeper, and you can make it tick as fast or as slow as you want. This clock will dictate how long it takes for the signal to travel from one end to the other of your neuron. (This can be adjusted after it is built)
I'm going to send a PM to an admin and see if I can get the title changed to reflect the project you are building if you are ok with that.
Do you have a source nearby to purchase electronic components?
Your going to need, at least one Opamp.
Some resistors, very few capacitors.
Shift registers (qty, depends on how many leds you want)
LEDs (of course
)
Transistors. (I noticed on the picture, that the ends of the neuron have more LEDs that light up at the same time than the middle sections... to allow a single pin on a shift register to light up more than one LED at a time, we need to use a transistor)
In the mean time, can you please sit down and draw out exactly how you want your project put together.
What I want to see is:
-How many LEDs
-Which LEDs will be grouped together (I see in the picture, that each end has a large group, and the middle segments are simply grouped in pairs.)
-If you want the neuron split in half so that sounds from the left speaker light up a different path than the right. (This will double the component count required... stick to mono to keep it simple)