Hi there,
I am very interested in LED hula hoops, my fiance loves them, and she has a custom LED hoop that was made by our friend. Simple circuit and design. I'm getting more into playing around with RGB LED flex-strip for making hoops. My fiance showed me several videos of programmable hoops. This seems to be her latest that she's obsessed with.
http://youtu.be/L-gKC-VF_uA
I would like to learn the circuit, schematic, and how to code the IC correctly. The only problem is that the only way I could do such a thing is to spend the $350 on the hoop and take it apart, possibly destroying the circuit in the process depending on how its mounted in the tubing.
I understand that the hoop consists of RGB LED flex-strip, some sort of IC, solid state memory, and a 2100mAh Lithium Ion Battery. I just wonder if anyone out there might be able to break down the circuitry at all. The code in the IC somehow makes it that any .bmp saved on the SSM to be displayed on the LED. And the entire board in the hoop has a mini-USB connection to connect it straight to a computer to upload the .bmp files.
Just wondering if anyone has any insight to this.
Thank you
I am very interested in LED hula hoops, my fiance loves them, and she has a custom LED hoop that was made by our friend. Simple circuit and design. I'm getting more into playing around with RGB LED flex-strip for making hoops. My fiance showed me several videos of programmable hoops. This seems to be her latest that she's obsessed with.
http://youtu.be/L-gKC-VF_uA
I would like to learn the circuit, schematic, and how to code the IC correctly. The only problem is that the only way I could do such a thing is to spend the $350 on the hoop and take it apart, possibly destroying the circuit in the process depending on how its mounted in the tubing.
I understand that the hoop consists of RGB LED flex-strip, some sort of IC, solid state memory, and a 2100mAh Lithium Ion Battery. I just wonder if anyone out there might be able to break down the circuitry at all. The code in the IC somehow makes it that any .bmp saved on the SSM to be displayed on the LED. And the entire board in the hoop has a mini-USB connection to connect it straight to a computer to upload the .bmp files.
Just wondering if anyone has any insight to this.
Thank you