Wave or rippling lighting.

[Vitalius]

I'm not sure if this is a good spot for it in the forums, but I have a question.

Does anyone know of a way, or a type of light that pulses, but in a wave form. It's hard to describe what I'm talking about without a specific word, which I lack.

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Imagine that that is the tube or whatever this type of light would be in the form of.

Now, imagine that the light starts at one end, and flows to the other, like this.

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-o-------------------------

And so on...

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And the position behind the start of the light slowly dims as the light travels, creating a tail effect to the light. Like a wisp or something.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Or am I just crazy?

For some reason, when I think of what I'm talking about, I imagine Star Trek... And the lights in some areas of the ship or on visors (possibly another scifi show from back in the day).

 

[hmmblah]

Like this?

 

[Vitalius]

Like this?

Yes. Only, it goes to one end, then restarts at the end it began at.

But essentially that.

Edit: Thanks, btw. Glad I wasn't just making stuff up in my head. lol

 

[jamesriley94]

I don't think it would look good as case lighting, and I don't know if you can get them...
Although they are just programmable lights I'd assume, so you probably can buy them somewhere.

If you wanted that kind of effect, you can get Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM that has that effect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU7WFLxrrfY

 

[Vitalius]

That looks interesting. However, it's not what I'm going for. Thanks though.

Someone on another forum suggested using an Arduino or a PWM output from a microcontroller to, "Basically, pulse width modulation allows you to set the pulsation of the LED's to so fast that to the human eye it looks as if the LED is on all the time, then add waitstates so that it pulsates slower but still so that it looks on all the time just less intense, to adding long waitstates so that it's off until it has to light up again."

My problem to consider now is if that will be smooth or look like the RAM you posted, where it's a slow . . . rather than a smooth ____. Hmm.

 

[jamesriley94]

That looks interesting. However, it's not what I'm going for. Thanks though.

Someone on another forum suggested using an Arduino or a PWM output from a microcontroller to, "Basically, pulse width modulation allows you to set the pulsation of the LED's to so fast that to the human eye it looks as if the LED is on all the time, then add waitstates so that it pulsates slower but still so that it looks on all the time just less intense, to adding long waitstates so that it's off until it has to light up again."

My problem to consider now is if that will be smooth or look like the RAM you posted, where it's a slow . . . rather than a smooth ____. Hmm.

Well the RAM is completely configurable in software, so it can look fast or slow if you want it to.

I get what you mean about the arduino, but the issue is setting that up...
You'd have to use individual LEDs rather any LED strips like the bitfenix ones.

Phobya have something similar to what you want - not sure if you can configure it to do exactly what you want however:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZE7L5NTok


As another note of something else that...well...isn't what you want haha, but again something kind of similar. I used to have sound activated cathodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tN5S-F2kdQ

Could you explain where you're wanting the lights? and how you want to use them? Might help us to come up with some alternatives easier.

An arduino would involve you programming it yourself, which isn't exactly the easiest thing to do if you aren't clued up on it, so I don't think that's the best idea.

 

[Vitalius]

Thanks for the help.

But yeah, those aren't what I want lol.

What I want, simply put, is what I showed (the head with the visor) for the inside of my PC.

I want a strip of LED's along the top of the right-side panel to Pulse (still can't think of a singular word to describe that effect) so that the paint on the inside (the colors and such on motherboard and other things) will appear to do the same. To sort of pulse but in a direction, rather than in general.

 

[jamesriley94]

See the issue there is that any LED strips that you can buy, like the bitfenix ones, or NZXT, or any other for that matter, are all on the same circuit. Meaning no amount of configuring with an arduino will ever allow them to be turned on individually. It would just be the entire strip being made to turn on and off.

To do it, you'd need like 20 individual LEDs, all wired individually to the Arduino and programed to put one on at a time. That would mean a total of 40 wires for positive and negative all trailing down your case.

It is possible to do, but it's a lot of effort...

Unless a product that does this already exists.

 

[Vitalius]

See the issue there is that any LED strips that you can buy, like the bitfenix ones, or NZXT, or any other for that matter, are all on the same circuit. Meaning no amount of configuring with an arduino will ever allow them to be turned on individually. It would just be the entire strip being made to turn on and off.

To do it, you'd need like 20 individual LEDs, all wired individually to the Arduino and programed to put one on at a time. That would mean a total of 40 wires for positive and negative all trailing down your case.

It is possible to do, but it's a lot of effort...

Unless a product that does this already exists.

If it does, I'll find it. If it doesn't, I'll make it. (That'd be a great slogan as an Engineer....)

But yeah, thanks for the help .

 

[paulstung]

The Avexir MPower ram, has a nice wave ripple effect. I've got 16gb 4x4 sticks, and I think it looks great. Almost like the rigs heartbeat

 

[mehere]

what about something like this?
I know its for cars but its 12V
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...ath-brake-turn-function/210767_750259938.html