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December 15, 2006

RGB Bike POV

at 5:31 am. Filed under Cool Gadgets, Electronic Hacks

 

This bike POV uses a PIC microcontroller to control 32 LEDs. The hand wiring and soldering on the back of the board is amazing, those are all surface mount components on a standard perf board! It uses a 16f628 chip and the source code has been provided.

Update: Video added

“The whole thing is based on a pic16f628A, with some SMD mosfets to power the led’s. Those are very bright RGB led’s with SMD resistors for smaller PCB size and lower weight. That’s important too when keeping in mind that a heavy weight could give a unbalanced wheel. When all the led’s are on ( 32 led’s, each 3 colors, it draws 10Watt, but normally it will use less than 1 watt. Power comes from 4 NiMh AA cells. And there lifetime before charging is very long.

Keeping the rotation synchronized with showing the text is possible by 2 reed sensors. So each rotation shows twice the image. You could do it once, but that means half the refresh rate. ”


 


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5 Responses to “RGB Bike POV”

  1. zedomax.com Says:

    RGB Bike POV

    Nicely done RGB Bike POV! POV stands for Persistence of Vision, check out wikipedia definition
    if you don’t know it yet.
    The whole thing is based on a pic16f628A, with some SMD mosfets to power the led’s. Those are very bright RGB led’s wit…

  2. 你好,上帝 Says:

    自制的自行车夜光灯

    要是在晚上跑.是不是很cool的
    而且还是免费的呢
    来自这个支持论坛
    上面连短路板也有.
    是不是也想做一个.

  3. Richards bollux » Hacked Gadgets » RGB Bike POV Says:

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  5. Imran Says:

    Hi,

    Very nice work, really appreciate.

    I am hobbiest and just started working on PIC. I made one simple POV, and
    one simple RGB program.. I am trying to multiplex many RGBs with one small
    PIC. Can you help me in this regards?

    Can I get schematic of your circuit and source code?

    Can you please refer me a good site..

    I have asked you so many questions:)

    Thanks,

    Kind regards, Imran

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