Thread: Q for Springwater.

Should we keep this thread going? Here? Or start another? Where? I'm happy to be amongst friends here but the topic is away from carving. I'd welcome suggestions.

Originally Posted by springwater

Should we keep this thread going? Here? Or start another? Where? I'm happy to be amongst friends here but the topic is away from carving. I'd welcome suggestions.

as l see it you can run this thread as long as you like or if you would like other non carving members to join in you would put it in a diffrent forum
feel free to talk about anything you like springwater you are amonges friends here

Deepest sympathies springwater - my thoughts are with you

Originally Posted by MALPT

Deepest sympathies springwater - my thoughts are with you

Thanks MALPT, still have one pug named Andy (AKA as Andyman or Wally or just Man), a Jack Russel named Ruby (AKA as Doddy or Margaret) and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Shimmer (AKA as Shim or Margaret). Ruby and Shimmer are known together as the Pointer Sisters because, well, their snouts are pointier than the pug(s) who, well, don't have much of a snout at all, a bit cruel really, don't really know why anyone felt the need to breed out a dog's nose, anyway they can't really see the problem I suppose.

Andy might well think your nose is a bit funny too

Yea it is cruel but the dogs dont know - treat them with love and its returned many times over.....

Originally Posted by SPIRIT

as l see it you can run this thread as long as you like or if you would like other non carving members to join in you would put it in a diffrent forum
feel free to talk about anything you like springwater you are amonges friends here

Thanks SPIRIT, the thread could get a bit techo, electrically, computery, resinary or glassy though, not to mention the interludes of greiving, we'll see what other's think. I'm happy to keep it running but there could be big gaps in the time between my progress posts owing to the fact that I'm working on three other things that should come first but because of Watsons and Tea Lady's offer of help it's starting to come out of the too hard basket.

I wish I had a chunk of Houn Pine to give you, Undy's right about the need for you to get some good carving wood. I can provide you with some but it's only small, let me know if you want some and we can arrange something but I warn you, it's addictive.

Originally Posted by MALPT

Andy might well think your nose is a bit funny too

Yea it is cruel but the dogs dont know - treat them with love and its returned many times over.....

Yeah, he thinks I'm a Wally, our dogs love love, we had three pugs when my girls were young, they each used to dress them up in dolls cloths, bonnets and all and wheel them happily lying down in their prams to the shops, they loved it, caught a few people out too

Originally Posted by tea lady

BTW Spring water, Hubby wants to know how your are controling your "heart monitor". This post may need to be shifted again to the computer section. What data are you actually going to display?

Hubby Tea Lady, um, I don't know how exactly I'm going to control the Heart Monitor. With a little reading, until it all got a bit techo and I didn't understand the lingo, a bit of computer to screen knowledge and by observing other lighting set-ups I believe it's possible.

Now, my thinking is, think of the heart with its LED light within as like a pixel on a computer screen. The LED light within the heart can be either R(Red), B(Blue), or G(Green), they can be either off or on. The hearts arranged in a grid become the computer screen. What I don't know is how to get an image from the computer to display in the heart grid.

I would like to display moving pictures of say for instance clouds a flock of birds, not asking much am I?

Originally Posted by springwater

Hubby Tea Lady, um, I don't know how exactly I'm going to control the Heart Monitor. With a little reading, until it all got a bit techo and I didn't understand the lingo, a bit of computer to screen knowledge and by observing other lighting set-ups I believe it's possible.

Now, my thinking is, think of the heart with its LED light within as like a pixel on a computer screen. The LED light within the heart can be either R(Red), B(Blue), or G(Green), they can be either off or on. The hearts arranged in a grid become the computer screen. What I don't know is how to get an image from the computer to display in the heart grid.

I would like to display moving pictures of say for instance clouds a flock of birds, not asking much am I?

I'll mention it to Mr Tea lady. He might know of some reading you can do. Or he might come back with a whole solution. I am also pretty good at Electronic soldering as i did it in a former life. BTW, I saw something on telly the other day about The first TV display (I think it was.) of Felix the cat. The resolution reminded me of your Heart Monitor. Hubby gets back from Sydney Tomorrow, so I'll ask him then.

Thanks Tea Lady, do you mind if I get back later to you regarding the glass hearts, I really should complete what I'm doing first before I take on the Heart Monitor, it's got me going though.

Sure. I've also got things I should be doing. Bit of research can't hurt though. And sometimes answers just appear.

I know you said get back to me later, but I found these on another site I waste time on.
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-...ift-registers/

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...-microcontrol/

Sorry!

Thanks Tea Lady, I'm trying to make sense of all the jargon, have a Captain Cook at this little pearl of wisdom:
"You could certainly bake some patterns into the 644; I just didn't have time to port my antialiased rasteriser to AVR, and it makes a nice demo to open up a terminal session to the board and start lighting up individual subpixels by typing."

Cheers
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