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LifeJunkie
Joined: 10 Feb 2008
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Location: Kent
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 Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Signed up on: 2008-03-04 13:57:45.093339
Your place in the queue: 111
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Daedra
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Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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Location: Canterbury, Kent
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| Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Nice one LJ!! I'm number 44 (^_^) Weeeee! |
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LifeJunkie
Joined: 10 Feb 2008
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Location: Kent
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| Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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hopefully by the time they are actually ready i will be a better spinner 
I was just reading up on them
| Quote: | Looking directly into the lens is a lot brighter! 
...although not as bad as a laser. Probably more like staring at the sun 
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| Quote: | | 10-20x brighter than a super bright LED. If you were to look straight into the lens with all three colours at maximum brightness, that's ~3W of power firing into your eyeballs. Definitely not one to try! |
And you can also plug them into USB to programme sequences into it?!
Cant have long to wait now anyway.. |
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splinter
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Posts: 133
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| you can write your own sequences or use ones that have been written by other people. *hyperlight himself wrote a rainbow fade sequence over the weekend and uploaded it over the weekend in a second or two... |
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Daedra
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| Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Will deffo want to get hold of the rainbow fade!
Will definitely be writing a few sequences of my own! Loads of strobe and fade goodness! So how big are the units then splinter? they the size of your average Glo Ball? |
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LifeJunkie
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| Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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the link someone posted in here was the old design, the new one:
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splinter
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Tue 04th Mar, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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same size as hair gel tubs, little bigger than a tennis ball 
you will be able to take any sequences people use through the hyperlight website
[url] http://www.hyperlight.co.uk [/url][/url] |
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*HyperLight
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu 06th Mar, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Daedra wrote: | | Yeah hyperlights destroy flow poi in every way shape and form at the end of the day! |
I would argue that bang for buck, they are very similar. For the price, flow lights are fantstic.. just like hyperlights.
In these two (rare) cases, I reckon you really get what you pay for |
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Daedra
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| Posted: Thu 06th Mar, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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*sulks as he is yet again proved wrong...*
Gawd dam >.<'
Well coming from the guy who makes them you can't really argue it any more :P |
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*HyperLight
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu 06th Mar, 2008 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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hehe
The balls are just under 70mm in diameter.
They're programmable in so much as you plug them into your PC/Mac and download new patterns. There's a little piece of software you run to make the patterns by dragging and dropping colours in the order you want them to appear... and if you're not a fan of doing it yourself, the website will host a massive library (which anyone can contribute to) containing all the patterns that you and I come up with
It won't be long now - I'm just discussing options for plastics and finishes. Once that's done I'll get a prototype built to make sure everything fits. If there's no issues, I'll be pretty much ready to start production! |
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Daedra
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| Posted: Thu 06th Mar, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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Under 70 eh?! That's a pretty good size!! :D
I saw the photo's of some of the hyperlights that were taken to Tarn. They look really nice! So will you be getting the software with the hyperlights as part of like a package thing or will it be readily available on the site?
In any case I'm well looking forward to them:P |
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*HyperLight
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu 06th Mar, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Daedra wrote: | | Under 70 eh?! That's a pretty good size!! :D |
I thought so too
| Daedra wrote: | | I saw the photo's of some of the hyperlights that were taken to Tarn. They look really nice! |
...and the photo's really don't do them justice! You really have to see them to appreciate the impact they have
| Daedra wrote: | | So will you be getting the software with the hyperlights as part of like a package thing or will it be readily available on the site? |
Probably both. It will all be upgradable (even the stuff that runs on the poi itself) so if I come up with improvements, the software should pop up and say "Hey! There's some new/cool stuff available".. a quick download and voila, you've got even better toys for free |
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