I was the director and designer for spacewriter so I have an interest in LED image progressions the spacial display editing software although old could be useful to someone?.. have the source code for this sorftware and our old hardware products … SignLine / FanScreen / iBall / spacewriter…my robo…

Awesome! And pleased to meet you. I have an old serial iBall still sitting on my desk. I play with it from time to time but it’s fairly limited compared to today’s technology.

cool cool… so many things one can make…Im making a light curtain that is mostly see through at night and will be held in the sky with two drones powered and controlled by tethers from the ground could be 3Dish…would also like to make a SpaceWriter edited via Bluetooth and smart phone app… maybe put …

@Jon_Bruno please to meet you too… glad you like the iBall my old Taiwan partner is looking to make them again with some upgrades … Im into robot insect design “miBeez” now, will be firing up my iBalls at Xmass

Hah. I’ve gotta check that out. Any idea of some hacks/upgrades I could do to my old iBall? SD, esp8266, arduino… Looking to make it a little more useful but I haven’t opened it up yet. It would be nice to be able to stream data to it without the sde

yes streaming is the way to go … came to that conclusion 10 years ago when I wished to redesign the product range… would be good to stream via Bluetooth or WiFi or something so eliminating the rotary data coupling and offering direct to media device…:slight_smile: best way is to bypass the PIC contr…

there is a tacho signal for timing… have 1 WallScreen left… I get it outside at Xmas… much to the nabours delight …

@Jon_Bruno yes streaming is the way to go … came to that conclusion 10 years ago when I wished to redesign the product range… would be good to stream via Bluetooth or WiFi or something so eliminating the rotary data coupling and offering direct to media device…:slight_smile: best way is to bypass t…

miBeez: Yeah I always loved the wallscreen… especially when they are ganged up together… but the Fanscreen was probably my absolute favorite. although i could never afford one nor did I know how to get one… Actually Ive had this iBall so long I cant remember where I got it from? I must have bought i…

Interfacing with the ST2221c’s shouldnt be all that much of a chore since they a re just glorified shift registers… But 16 lines… hmm… some thought will need to be put into it. perhaps a couple of 74HC595’s ??

Hmm… looking at the unit I see the drivers are mounted on the LED Blade…I also gather that the pic is is fed data from down in the base up the column shaft to the rotating blade mount… I do see the TX and RX lines as well as tach. I wonder if an ESP8266 could be mounted up there on the platter to fe…

I was the director and designer for spacewriter so I have an interest

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marmil (Marc Miller) January 27, 2022, 7:03am 24

Hello @Lisa_Young
This is the FastLED G+ archives. Please visit our Reddit group for current discussions. Maybe someone there can provide some insight about your iBall Opti-Space.