Thread: New light panel for alien haunt

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This year we are doing an alien invasion theme, we thought tons of lights and panels flashing away as a background effect.
I went to the scrap yard, and picked up the door of a power conversion station, it was covered with lights, and switches. i wanted them all to flash so i built a quick circuit to address 14 lights and 2 panel meters. It can be reprogrammed to flash anyway wanted.
I used a pic18f2550, and two uln2803 chips.
I attached a video below and have pictures to load soon

Thats cool ! I like the alien theme.. Looks like having a couple of the lights blinking would be a good thing.

What a backdrop! Looks like it's really transmitting status information.

Originally Posted by Terra

What a backdrop! Looks like it's really transmitting status information.

Thanks, I'm working on a 2nd program that will be a little quicker, that's just one i wrote in a few minutes to make sure all the lights were gonna work. I'm gonna aim for that crazed control panel look.

Here is a picture of the control circuit i made to run the panel, just a pic micro controller and 2 buffers.

Originally Posted by joshua17ss2

...just a pic micro controller and 2 buffers.

You say it's "just" but I don't understand what any of those nouns means

wanna see a vid of your progress!!!

Originally Posted by Terra

You say it's "just" but I don't understand what any of those nouns means

ok, how about just awesome

Its a tiny computer similar to the ones used in stand alone prop controllers, used to turn lights on and off.

Im gonna post a second video when i get off work, i got the panel meters working correctly late last night, so that i could sleep and not dream of why they were not doing what they were suppose to

Originally Posted by joshua17ss2

Im gonna post a second video when i get off work, i got the panel meters working correctly late last night, so that i could sleep and not dream of why they were not doing what they were suppose to

Boy do I hear ya there !!!!! So many sleepless nights thinking about my props!!!

yup lol, there not suppose to cause nightmares till they are actually finished.