Singing Faces

[frenchy1]

I have been doing LOR for about 4 years getting a little older and slower (77 now)  is there anyone out there that has any type of kit for singing faces? 

[75redman]

Wow Lights.

[Ron Boyd]

http://www.holidaycoro.com/RGB-Singing-Christmas-Tree-p/100rgb.htm

http://www.holidaycoro.com/category-s/1824.htm

http://www.wowlights.com/ProductListSub.asp?Category=19

 

These pages have several

[Johnfish]

I just finished putting together the holiday coro RGB singing pumpkin. It is awesome. Here is a link to a test video of it singing thriller.

 

[dntknowdou]

I am looking into building talking pumpkins right now what all do you have into the RGB singing pumpkin as opposed to for example I have priced rope lights and a second controller looking at 600 bucks and that's not even using LED Rope light. Johnfish I really like that RGB Pumpkin.

[Johnfish]

I have about 435 dollars invested at this point. Bellow is a break down. The only thing I didn't include was the LOR S3 software license. The controllers, cabling and weather proof boxes will all be reused in my Christmas display so it was a reasonable price to pay. I am not using a LOR controller. With this set up I can select any color and vary it during the song for any of 9 channels. the only thing that might bring the price down a little would be to replace the E682 controller with a Holiday Coro Acti-dongle. That would save around 60 dollars off my price. the E682 is way over kill for this application as I am only using 1 universe out of a possible 12. If you have any other questions please let me know.

 

John

 

Holiday Coro Pumpkin  $ 60

12 v RGB dumb node   $117  (39 cents each 300 needed)
12v350 w power sup     $33
E682 Controller Kit        $118  (pixel controller used as a 1.31 bridge, kit version requires soldering)

27 channel DMX cntrl    $57

gc1500 box                    $12

gc2000 box                    $10

4 conduct wire               $ 3      (32 cents/ft, used about 10 ft)

Additional items             $25     (network cabling, heat shrink wood and hardware to build the frame)

[Johnfish]

Oh and BTW you don't need 300 rgb nodes. The pumpkin uses about 280. (if you buy the pumpkin make sure to verify that with holiday coro)

I needed the extra nodes for another project. So that would reduce the price a little further.

 

John

[Box on Rails]

Here is a video of my rope light pumpkin face. it is just plain incandescent rope lights. I think the key with faces is that lip movements are good and synced. 

 

The frame of the pumpkin is from http://www.wireframedlites.com/  it is the standard jack-o-lantern. The rope lights I got at 1000bulbs.com 150ft roll was like 80 bucks and I used white zip ties to fasten the lights to the frame.

 

this next video has a face I made on peg board with rope lights from scratch. I still need to paint the pegboard flat black to reduce the reflection from the wood but I am pleased with the result. 

[travis p]

heres mine

[travis p]

just in case that last one was t leggy enuff hereshttps://vimeo.com/69587476 another one

[NEWTOUR]

I'm impressed, the pumpkin looks great!!