[dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, vintage 1999, FREE to a good home!

[mike begley]

I may be interested in this!  I will contact you tomorrow if it's still
available.

-mike 

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> From: dorkbotsea-blabber-bounces at music.columbia.edu 
> [mailto:dorkbotsea-blabber-bounces at music.columbia.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Clarke
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:00 PM
> To: A discussion list for dorkbot-sea
> Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, 
> vintage 1999,FREE to a good home!
> 
> Sitting in my garage is a touch-sensitive disco floor, an old 
> piece that I've been schlepping around for several years 
> (actually, since the previous millenium) and have now been 
> ordered to get rid of due to its large size.  It's about 4' x 
> 4' x 6" deep, a wooden grid frame underneath sixteen 1' x 1' 
> lexan tiles with different color theatre gels and tracing 
> paper diffusers attached to the bottom side, so that each 
> tile lights up uniformly in one of several different basic 
> colors.  The light source is an MR16 12V halogen bulb 
> underneath each square; each tile also has an Interlink FSR 
> that acts as a detect switch (with no detent) when a person 
> steps on the tile.  All the lights and sensors are wired out 
> to a single ribbon cable that can be plugged into a control 
> board.  The control board has long-since been salvaged for 
> other things, but it would not be hard to create one -- just 
> need a MCU, a lot of I/Os, some power FETs, and a hefty 12V 
> supply, and it should be back in business.  A few parts have 
> been salvaged from the floor (mainly about 3 of the lexan 
> tiles) but otherwise it's in pretty good shape.
> 
> There's a photo of it here:
> 
> http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.clarke/ForSaleOrGiveaway/phot
> o#5144319269468876418
> 
> The sole catch is that you have to find your own means of 
> picking it up and carting it away -- it won't fit in any kind 
> of transportation that I have available.  Best days to get it 
> are weekends, Wednesdays or Fridays.  
> Drop me a line if you're seriously interested.  
> 
> -Mike
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