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I made a small LED panel

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154 points Brajeshwar | 13 comments | 09 Oct 25 15:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.527s | source | bottom
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stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 02:30 UTC] No.45651814[source]▶
I was about to comment that I also made a small LED panel, but then realized it was me.

Here's the latest LED thing I'm working on (the design isn't mine): https://immich.home.stavros.io/share/oXerU8gnLn-dNHunPOg8lM8...

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1. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 10:28 UTC] No.45654285[source]▶
Nice work! I've done a few LED thingies too ..

https://magicshifter.net/

.. and, I recycled some old scoreboard display panels to make something similar to your latest project, also:

About the panels: https://metalab.at/wiki/Blinkofant/LED-Display_History

The Blinkophant: https://i.imgur.com/3aPytEp.jpeg

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2. stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 10:50 UTC] No.45654406[source]▶
This is great! Your TLS cert is invalid, though, so the site doesn't load properly, I think.
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3. tecleandor ◴[21 Oct 25 11:43 UTC] No.45654669[source]▶
Where did you get the scoreboards? eBay?
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4. stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 13:54 UTC] No.45655846[source]▶
I made something close to MagicShifter a while ago, I didn't add an accelerometer, though:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/behold-ledonardo/

I would really like to make it work with an accelerometer, as right now it's a bit fiddly to get the right speed for images, but I don't know if I can make it work.

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5. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 14:18 UTC] No.45656145[source]▶
Not just accelerometer, but magnetometer too. :)

This means you can basically use the magicshifter3000 as a knob. Or, a slider.

Its very fun with MIDI.

:)

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6. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 14:19 UTC] No.45656162[source]▶
Yeah, expired a while ago, its a pretty old site and we have to get the old gang back together to fix it.

Thanks for checking out the magicShifter3000!

I've got a new one designed, currently in prototyping stages .. a bit more powerful and a lot more oriented towards audio/synthesis. Same form-factor, and probably MS3000 and midiShifter will have an ecosystem ..

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7. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 14:20 UTC] No.45656172[source]▶
Donated to metalab through a member connection. Austria/Vienna has a bit of a 'recycle/re-use/repurpose' scene, and this was an early example of a metalab win:

https://metalab.at/

We devoured the panels and did all kinds of funky things with them.

https://metalab.at/wiki/Blinkofant/LED-Display_History

8. stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 14:34 UTC] No.45656349{3}[source]▶
Oooh fantastic! That's the kind of thing I really like to see.
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9. stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 14:35 UTC] No.45656369{3}[source]▶
If you have the site on GitHub, you can deploy it to Cloudflare Pages with a few clicks, and it will take care of all of that stuff for you.

Also, a few friends and I have a maker Discord server and you'd fit right in, I can send an invitation if you like! My email is in my profile.

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10. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 14:44 UTC] No.45656477{4}[source]▶
Perhaps you will understand what this is, then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syP8_lccIQA

:)

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11. stavros ◴[21 Oct 25 14:54 UTC] No.45656586{5}[source]▶
Haha, amazing! Is it based on the accelerometer, or do you have a microphone connected somehow? I can't tell whether you're tapping the desk they're on.

Then again, the right ones light up more than the left ones, so I think you're tapping on the right edge of the desk. Very cool!

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12. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 16:10 UTC] No.45657536{6}[source]▶
The accelerometer and the desk, being tapped by me offscreen just to be sure things were responding .. alas, they are kind of hard to keep in one big pile, but yes very fun to play with en masse! :)

(This was some years back, note.)

13. MomsAVoxell ◴[21 Oct 25 16:16 UTC] No.45657628{4}[source]▶
Server: not my department. :)

But yeah, we'll probably reboot magicShifter soon ..