colout trix

[Matt_Edwards]

I missed out on the Trix development last year, but have been keen to see how it worked out. now I am ready to start looking at building one a thought occurred to me (Yep I had an apostrophe!) how would you go about converting hte current design to RGB LEDs instead of single colour?
I assume Vixen can handle three colours. so the Trix-C would need to be able to recognise the addition of colour.
Is it possible now?
Will it be possible this year?
Has any one started working on a colour version?

Cheers
Matt

[scorpia]

there was some talk last year of building a 16x16 panel with rgb led's. this could be run with the current boards.

but cost is a huge issue once you get to rgb.

[Warlock]

I have a design I'll post tomorrow for this very thing.I'm pretty sure a plug in could be made by someone here to have it work for vixen as I was going to ask if this would be possible when I go home with the designs I have from the company who makes the huge outdoor video billboards that are all over the place here.
Will post more tomorrow...
Joe...

[mrpackethead]

there was some talk last year of building a 16x16 panel with rgb led's. this could be run with the current boards.

but cost is a huge issue once you get to rgb.

Tell, me about it, my 16x10 grid wsas'nt cheap!

Mind you there are other ways of doing it..

[Warlock]

Here is the board I looked up...I have not had a chance to run cost yet but as soon as I do I can post it here.This was done as a project for kids in school so my thinking is it shouldn't be too costly as I'm sure and also hopefuly that some people here will have a peak at this and see what they think.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Joe...

[dmcole]

how would you go about converting hte current design to RGB LEDs instead of single colour?


RJ over at http://www.diylightanimation.com/ has been making noises about a LedTriks II that will be RGB and use way fewer LEDs (think spinning mirrors, lenses and projection screen). He has done a small-scale prototype and has built a larger scale prototype that oozed out a single beam of light late last month.

The discussion is in the LedTriks II forum.

\dmc

[Aurbo99]

I believe if you break the output lines into three 16x16 panels 1 red, 1 green and 1 blue with each tri-set of led's clustered together will give you a fairly cheap RGB version without changing the existing harware. the text and graphics may be a bit short but it would work.

[Matt_Edwards]

4pin RGB LEDs are ~US600 per 2k. Yes that is pricey.
The driver hardware will remain identical unless PWM is added to dim the LEDs.
The only issue I see is the Vixen plugin. that will need to be completed also.

Cheers
Matt

[TimW]

Matt, I'm still stuck on the fundamental equation:

All things being equal.. 768 leds per panel.... 4 leads per RGB led.... 3072 soldered joints per panel + connectors + controller per panel. (!)

Even if I could afford the lights... I'd be doing a quick 'DIYC passion check' to ensure I was up to the task for RGB!!!!

Tim

[scorpia]

Matt, I'm still stuck on the fundamental equation:

All things being equal.. 768 leds per panel.... 4 leads per RGB led.... 3072 soldered joints per panel + connectors + controller per panel. (!)

Even if I could afford the lights... I'd be doing a quick 'DIYC passion check' to ensure I was up to the task for RGB!!!!

Tim

tim, wrong maths.

768 differnt leds on a 48x16 panel single color panel. convert to a 16x16x3 color panel using current hardware and it becomes 16x16 x 4 (legs)
its accually less soldering than a standard panel. I still wouldnt want to it. and 256 rgb 5mm led's arnt cheap.

of cause if you want to go to a 48x16 panel in rgb good luck :)