Deadmau5 full LED Head

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ChocolateBear

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Hello there :) im working on a mua5 head, full LED's... i have the 14" inch globe comnig in, with a full spool of cuttable LED's and so far, a single 12 volt LED fan and connectors... was hoping i could get some tips on the wiring and battery aspec of building. this will be my first build. and really would like it to be smooth and a head turner. are there any pictures or walkthoughs for the wiring part of fan to switch to battery? its fine that it turns on but be better if it lit up also lol. :confused
 
Can you be more specific as to what LEDs you have? I'm assuming it's like the LED tape with adhesive backing? You should be able to use 9v batteries to run this thing. You can get the connectors at radio shack. If you wire 2 or 3 9v battery connectors together in parallel (meaning you wire all the positive ends together, and all the negative ends together) you should get a decent amount of battery life. You could power it on just one, but your battery will die quickly if you have a lot wired up to it. If you have more questions feel free to PM me. i do a lot of work with LEDs, fans, etc.
 
awesome thank you. yeaits the LED strips u can cut and wire together. i beilvie with the adhesive backing.. ill deff PM you. thank you
 
If you are using LED strip, normally it runs on 12V, smaller one requires around 5W/m, the bigger ones goes up to 13W/m.
The bigger the wattage (types of LED and the length used), the more battery (mAh) you'll need.
See my tips for connecting the LED strip.
 
IMIM2 said:
If you are using LED strip, normally it runs on 12V, smaller one requires around 5W/m, the bigger ones goes up to 13W/m.
The bigger the wattage (types of LED and the length used), the more battery (mAh) you'll need.
See my tips for connecting the LED strip.
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yea, trying to find a 12v for the LEDs and my Fans, insteadof the little ones i got 2 big 12v led fans. and 1 switch. want the LEDS and the power to all run to one switch with i flip the fans on.
 
I normally use 9V battery. I was able to light up a suit with about 1.5m small LED strip for about 3 hours. Not as bright as 12V but is more than enough.
If you use fans, do separate power source, cause fans drawn power more. Perhaps 7.2V battery pack (use or remote controlled toy) can do the trick.
 
looks like you already have the LEDs but have you thought about using the adressable LED RGB strips. you could just run one big spiral top to bottom and control all the individual colour of the LEDs with one arduino. If you do end up sticking with a basic white LED strip I still suggest hooking up an arduino to it to control the LEDs strobing or pulsing intime with music beats.
 
IMIM2 said:
I normally use 9V battery. I was able to light up a suit with about 1.5m small LED strip for about 3 hours. Not as bright as 12V but is more than enough.
If you use fans, do separate power source, cause fans drawn power more. Perhaps 7.2V battery pack (use or remote controlled toy) can do the trick.
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ahhhh sounds good, would u happen to know if the LEDs in the fan would need a diff source also?
 
skint said:
looks like you already have the LEDs but have you thought about using the adressable LED RGB strips. you could just run one big spiral top to bottom and control all the individual colour of the LEDs with one arduino. If you do end up sticking with a basic white LED strip I still suggest hooking up an arduino to it to control the LEDs strobing or pulsing intime with music beats.
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i thought about that but didnt think it would work with the strips... but deff will look into it more now you said that tho. hmm, i cant find anything on how i would wire it up... pictures but since i have the LED strips and not individual LEDS... would it just plug into one of the plug in's on the borad?
 
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Normally. the LED on the fan is only one or two DIP LED, it'll requires so little power, so no worries in separating those. The fan motor is the one you should be worried.
If you go Las Vegas style, then consider your battery pack.
 
ah yea... ima look into bat packs when i start to put the fan in cause gonna need to find where to mount everything inside. its a 14 inch globe so shouldnt be a issue. did decided to go with arduino though, just dont know which board would be a right choice or anything on hookiing up the LEDs to the arduino board..... correct me if im wrong, from pictures it seemed like ppl took the wire from the LED and just connected it to one of the connetions on the board and that was it...?
 
for the Strip LEDs with the 3m tape on the back, anyone know or have a idea of how to go about programming them with a arduino board?
 
Check on how many terminal are there. If it is two (plus and minus), it means single color. Programming only for on and off, and maybe dimming.
If there are 4 terminals (R,G,B, +) that means it is a RGB multicolored LED strip. You can do color changing (I think it is 15 colors) and dimming.
If the strip got 10 terminals, that means it color changing and programmable (chasing RGB LED).
So please post the pic, amd what kind of programming do you have in mind?
 
thats my LEDs wire and connection end the board i brought is a Arduino Uno R3 board... the effects i was going with or hoping to do was just a wave affect, flashy, pusle,, a mouth in motion or some kinda graphic. something fun.
 
from my limited knowing in Arduino it can only support a low number of rgb pixles. what you could do is use 3 independent clusters of LEDs. One set for the main head, mouth and eyes.
 
rcdrift said:
from my limited knowing in Arduino it can only support a low number of rgb pixles. what you could do is use 3 independent clusters of LEDs. One set for the main head, mouth and eyes.
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the LED strip is cuttable so was gonna make a full faced LED head. except the eyes i was gonna get just a strobe, seperate.
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thats where im at so far. lining up the LED strip to drill where im gonna drop the wires in the head for each strip. annnnnd looks like.UPS dropping off my 9 volt connectors and 3.5 inch screen as im typin,nice lol um but hopfully the pic gives some kinda idea. of what im aiming at.

(sorry for the no shirt thing... cut the globe with a cutting wheel.... was messy as hell and got plastic in my eye... not fun, and i fixed the crack and the size of the left eye)
 
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