HIC Hero Panel Electronics Project

[Lumpy]

Hey All,

Thought I would share my progress on my HIC electronics project.

I was looking for a cost effective way to reproduce the lighting
sequence as seen in the movies.

I took a snippet of the scene where Lando checks on Han just
after he gets frozen. I broke it down frame by frame to come
up with this sequence so far.

To make this all work I'm using :

1 - Arduino Duemilanove (Probably buy a mini later on)
3 - 74HC595 Shift Registers
- Bunch of resistors
- Bunnch of LED's
3 - 7 Segment (Common Anode) LED Display
1 - 5 Segment (Common Anode) LED Display with Overload (on order)

So I have the scene broken down to 42 frames with changes occuring.
The code allows me to supply in decimal what to display for each 42
frames and adjust delay between each frame.

I'm currently working on getting the delay and speed proper.

It's a start. I'm no programmer but so far it will do.

Once I'm somewhat confident in it I'll release all the info to the masses.

If anyone wants to help on the programming side that would be awesome.

Here is the vid - Note the last 2 vertical bars to the right represent the + / -

YouTube - video-2010-12-02-12-47-47

Lumpy

 

[Keith]

Does anyone know the correct number for the opal white perspex used in the panels?

I can get 3mm opal 050, but i think this may be too white.

Keith.

 

[Rebelscum]

Here in the US that's just a common acrylic referred to in the business as "sign white". Very common for backlit signs.

 

[Madrid Boba]

Cool!!

Thanks for sharing

Alfredo

 

[kurtyboy]

Don't know about Spain, but 'sign white' means nothing in the UK! :unsure

Cool!!

Thanks for sharing

Alfredo

 

[modeljag]

Looks great! Tweaking the timing should be easy now that you have the sequence down. Why did you use 3 shift registers though? 2 should be enough to handle up to 16 leds, and I count 13 on your board.