Monday, June 29, 2015
6/29/2015 Update
I have redesigned the caps, this one has a space to install a motion detector.
I dont know what i will do with this sensor, but it seemed like it could be fun, so for now the hardware will go in and I can add functionality later.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Just some photos to share
A soon to happen post will have detailed pics of all the parts, but they arent all printed yet so I need a few weeks still to get it all ready.
also this pic showing the wiring, this setup now has 48 more LEDs than pictured.
Here are the parts I am currently printing, they are the largest and most time consuming of the project.
Monday, June 15, 2015
6/15/2015 Update
I have been working with Alex Gorbunov from work to get the code working and we had a brainstorming session that resulted in me ordering a thermometer, motion sensor, audio amplifier and a light sensor.
We have plans to integrate all this into the project, but for now i am concentrating on finishing up the printing so I can get this thing painted and installed. We can add features and updates after its physically complete.
I also still need to find good info as to how i could make an LCARS style UI that would run on the 5" touch screen that is on the back of this thing. I would love a plus and minus button to change the speed manually, some buttons to run some other fun programs Alex made, display the temperature and perhaps some other things we have not thought of yet.
i want to make a UI like the one below to control this on the raspberry pi. I was thinking i could make a web interface pretty easily if i can find instructions on how to control the python code from buttons in a web page. This all may sound silly as I am not a coder, but this is what i am imagining. If you have ideas please contact me!
We have plans to integrate all this into the project, but for now i am concentrating on finishing up the printing so I can get this thing painted and installed. We can add features and updates after its physically complete.
I also still need to find good info as to how i could make an LCARS style UI that would run on the 5" touch screen that is on the back of this thing. I would love a plus and minus button to change the speed manually, some buttons to run some other fun programs Alex made, display the temperature and perhaps some other things we have not thought of yet.
i want to make a UI like the one below to control this on the raspberry pi. I was thinking i could make a web interface pretty easily if i can find instructions on how to control the python code from buttons in a web page. This all may sound silly as I am not a coder, but this is what i am imagining. If you have ideas please contact me!
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
6/3/2015 - Update
I have added 48 more LEDs to the design,
24 to the center core piece and then a strip of 12 behind each spacer ring.
also here are some print failures to chuckle at.
24 to the center core piece and then a strip of 12 behind each spacer ring.
also here are some print failures to chuckle at.
Saturday, May 30, 2015
5/30/2015 Update
So it has been a while since i posted an update. There have been a few milestones and a couple setbacks.
i set a huge print to run for 7 days while i traveled to Seattle earlier this month. The printer jumped a tooth and the last few layers were skewed. so that was 7 days of printing lost.
I carved the huge piece into slices so if i had issues printing I wouldn't lose the entire part. After the first piece printed i noticed it was not square. Apparently when i reset the printer after the belt skip i didn't align things properly and everything was being skewed. I have all that sorted and we are making progress again.
The good news!
Alex has the code working and pulling data from the render farm to set the speed of the warp core.
Here is a video of it.
you can see the speed switch at 7 seconds in.
This functional sculpture now interacts with ThinkBox's Deadline render managing software!
Here is a fun function test of the RGB LEDs.
Some design updates.
we noticed that when the lights are animating and they pass through the spacers which are opaque we were getting a skip in the motion due to that area not having any LEDs. Alex wrote some code to simulate the delay that would be needed for the animation of the pixels to be smooth. The code worked, but not having lights in the spacers was causing some other issues visually. To remedy this i am going to hack up the spacer rings and print a part to adapt a ring of LEDs to shine into the opaque part. This explanation is very poor and i apologize. I may try to get a video of this issue this week sometime to explain why we decided to shine LEDs into the back of an opaque part.
I have also updated the design to embed a 5" touch screen to the back of the core's center. Photos of this work will follow soon.
i set a huge print to run for 7 days while i traveled to Seattle earlier this month. The printer jumped a tooth and the last few layers were skewed. so that was 7 days of printing lost.
I carved the huge piece into slices so if i had issues printing I wouldn't lose the entire part. After the first piece printed i noticed it was not square. Apparently when i reset the printer after the belt skip i didn't align things properly and everything was being skewed. I have all that sorted and we are making progress again.
The good news!
Alex has the code working and pulling data from the render farm to set the speed of the warp core.
Here is a video of it.
you can see the speed switch at 7 seconds in.
This functional sculpture now interacts with ThinkBox's Deadline render managing software!
Here is a fun function test of the RGB LEDs.
Some design updates.
we noticed that when the lights are animating and they pass through the spacers which are opaque we were getting a skip in the motion due to that area not having any LEDs. Alex wrote some code to simulate the delay that would be needed for the animation of the pixels to be smooth. The code worked, but not having lights in the spacers was causing some other issues visually. To remedy this i am going to hack up the spacer rings and print a part to adapt a ring of LEDs to shine into the opaque part. This explanation is very poor and i apologize. I may try to get a video of this issue this week sometime to explain why we decided to shine LEDs into the back of an opaque part.
I have also updated the design to embed a 5" touch screen to the back of the core's center. Photos of this work will follow soon.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
5/9/2015 Update
I received this video today from the Pipeline TD at work, Alex Gorbunov. He has been developing the python code that is driving the LEDs. Since I only have 1 warp core wired up he needed a way to test without having the actual hardware since i am still working on it.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
5/8/2015 update
I have a new time lapse of a coil part printing.
I have managed to damage the center 3 rings of LEDs and will be redesigning and rebuilding that over the next few days. Since the printer is the bottle neck I am not in a huge hurry. I have an issue to solve about how to fit the raspberry pi into this thing without occluding any of the lights in the central part of the warp core. I will post some screen grabs once i get the panel and other mounting pieces designed.
I have managed to damage the center 3 rings of LEDs and will be redesigning and rebuilding that over the next few days. Since the printer is the bottle neck I am not in a huge hurry. I have an issue to solve about how to fit the raspberry pi into this thing without occluding any of the lights in the central part of the warp core. I will post some screen grabs once i get the panel and other mounting pieces designed.
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