Funky Light

Dear fellow readers,

we are so sorry that we did not update our page during the last month, even if a lot happened during the time. We still pursue our goal of an easy to use tool to control the lighting for students and teachers.
Sadly, we have to study a lot for our final examination, so there is not much time keep up with the project on hackaday.io . After our graduation, we will continue our project and update the whole thing!
If you still want know a little bit more and can speak German or a satisfied with google translate visit http://funkylight.thebrokenprojects.de/ for more and fresher information (we done this page for a german competition).

Ohh and I want to mention, that FunkyLight attended the German competition "Jugend forscht", a national renowned science competition ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugend_forscht ). Furthermore, we are now part of the finalists and attend the last stage of Jugend forscht. Fingers crossed.

Langhalsdino

Dear Hackers, Makers and everyone who will read this project log,

we are back from the scary grounds of exams and other school stuff that invades your free time.

We finally managed it to build a crappy, but still quite solid case for the Funky Light hardware. In the next time we will deploy the hardware in assembly hall of our school and work more closely on the software.

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We are planning to post a short update video of the working prototype of Funky Light.
The next step will be to publish the software and we will publish the source code too.

Langhalsdino :)

This should only be a short update on our project.

We got some bad news for you :(

In the past days, our prototype got stolen, so it took us some time to get all the parts for a new run. But now the time has come for a new run, we soldered all the necessary and important parts on the board to begin a new testing phase. Hopefully we can show you some incredible pictures of the working prototype in the next days.

To make the time of waiting more likable we got some nice pictures of our unfinished Prototype for you.

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Ohh, what is that? We found a video that looks like it is a Video from the testing phase of Funky Light.

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Sincerely Langhalsdino

I got the oscilloscope of the physics department to run some tests on the circuit board and the results are great.

The signal on the oscilloscope definitely shows the characteristics of the photodiode from the Opto-isolator, but that was no problem for our test equipment, it lights up again.

Since the summer holidays begin in the next day, we finished with the prototype of the hardware and went over to the software side. Hopefully the software will have a lot more features to test at the end of the summer break.

With great regards, Langhalsdino 

Hey, the new PCB arrived as well as the new parts, let’s start soldering.

I uploaded some nice pictures of the new parts, and my soldering work :)

Hopefully you enjoy my last picture.

After I finished soldering I plane the testing phase of the circuit board for the next day at school. Hopefully I can lent me the oscilloscope from the physics department.

Your Langhalsdino.

Okay, after several test we noticed that it would be great to separate the current/circuits of the Arduino Yun and the DMX Signal, so we rethink the whole circuit.

We stated using a Galvanic isolator and some Opto-isolators, hopefully that will work out.

Here is a picture of the new PCB Layout. The Layout of the PCB now has different areas, that represent different tasks, for example the isolation areas or the area of the Transceivers. This time we will order the PCB, so the second version will look much more professional.

Ohh and we ordered new parts for the PCB , the List of Components got updated as well.

See you next time, Langhalsdino.

This time we started etching our first circuit board by our self, fingers crossed. Let’s see how it ends.

For this one we used a lot of acid, but it still took its time.

Here is another picture of the etched PCB, did not turned out that well. But it will work for the first prototype.

Sincerely Langhalsdino

Good morning, this is my first project log.

We started working on the Hardware of Funky Light and develop the circuit, which connects the Arduino Yun to the Lights.

Enjoy the cool Picture of the nice breadboard. 

It’s not that fancy, because we only testing the Line Transceivers. But it works great, hopefully we got the OSC Software running in the next days.

This is our test equipment, I hope you like the Funky Lights :)

Have a nice day, your Langhalsdino.