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LabRat
06-01-2010, 09:28 AM
Saw this youtube link about glowing ice, and it got me thinking that those of us living in the "snow belt" might be able to put it to use. Not sure where/how just yet... but thinking about it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7u0axpnhs&feature=related
jmksparks
06-02-2010, 02:18 AM
Had something simular, happened by accident, I had layed 30 odd 12inch snow flakes on the bank of my small river that runs through my property and with six inches of snow on top the light dispersal was incredable.
budude
06-02-2010, 02:49 AM
Saw this youtube link about glowing ice, and it got me thinking that those of us living in the "snow belt" might be able to put it to use. Not sure where/how just yet... but thinking about it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7u0axpnhs&feature=related

Actually, I could see using this at a party or something - put a few of these in a punch bowl with RGB LEDs (well - you just know you can't leave it with a single lame white LED!). People might get freaked about the wires running into their Sangria though... :p
Jrd
06-03-2010, 04:49 PM
Actually, I could see using this at a party or something - put a few of these in a punch bowl with RGB LEDs (well - you just know you can't leave it with a single lame white LED!). People might get freaked about the wires running into their Sangria though... :p

Well they don't need to have wires unless they are going to be computer controlled, you could run LEDs for awhile off a button battery like the samples at Walmart although I don't know if it would support a 555 timer or other randomizing device.
P. Short
06-06-2010, 05:23 PM
The current draw of a small PIC (such as a 10F200 or 16F629) is pretty small compared with that of an LED...
ErnieHorning
06-06-2010, 08:32 PM
Very simple, just make a few throwies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjTP_T-wR9w) and pitch them in an ice-cube tray and freeze. Glowing ice.

I tried acrylic with out much luck. I could get it to work but there was too much involved, I wanted simple. You need air bubbles or something that would disperse the light. There are ways to make your own polymer that I think would be more refractive.