We have been funded on Kickstarter, which is great! It will be another couple of weeks before any money shows up in the business accounts so in the mean time I can be doing a load of admin. I will be migrating this blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org over the next couple of days. Theoretically …
23: Live on Kickstarter again
New link https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/205276705/globe-a-spherical-persistence-of-vision-display After a cock up with the title (mostly my fault) the project has been re-re launched with its lower funding target. Everything else is pretty much the same, the only major difference is that Globe will have an acrylic display case rather than glass, saving a load of money and therefore allowing me …
22: Gearing up for Kickstarter…again
So the first campaign didn’t succeed, but nor did it completely flop. Of the £60,000 target we hit about the £22,000 mark, with a few people dropping out along the way when success was clearly unlikely. I want to say a huge thank you to all of my backers who helped get the project this …
21: And we are live on Kickstarter!
Kickstarter Link Video Link I have done it, I have spherical pushed the button. Now all I can do is wait and hope. To my first two backers I want to say a huge thank you for taking a leap and getting the ball rolling. I finally decided to do away with the different flavors …
20: Nearing the end
So last Friday wasn’t the day…nor was any day this week, however the end is in sight. It’s been a trying week, soldering HDMI cables onto connectors…again…and again inside of a metal box, chasing down potential shorts and generally getting annoyed with some of the design choices I made long ago. So far I have …
19: All coming together
I finally have all the pieces of the puzzle; the shaft is anodised, the laser cut steel plates are in and painted and the pulleys have finally turned up. My aim is to have the Globe prototype completed by the end of this week and the Kickstarter live early to mid next week so I have a …
18: Kickstarter work plan
So depending on how the Kickstarter campaign is going/has gone this blog may be more or less redundant, but I am writing it on the assumption that the campaign has reached its target and the project is going ahead (after all one needs a solid project plan before asking people to provide funding). As an electronic …
17: Gearing up for Kickstarter
As of writing this the prototype is nearing completion and I am gearing up for Kickstarter. It’s been a difficult project to plan, partially due to Globe being a fairly complex project (as far as Kickstarters go) and also because there’s still a fair bit of development to be done. As with most things, it …
16: Mechanical housing
The mechanical housing has been kept as rugged and straight forward as possible; a simple frame 425mm wide, 400mm high made out of inch square mild steel to be nice and sturdy and leave plenty of room for fitting things in. The top, front and side panels are laser cut out of 6mm oak veneered …
15: Cables – to DIY or splice?
The sliprings I bought for this project have 4 power lines (10A each) and 14 data lines. HDMI cables consist of 4 shielded differential pair signal traces (3 data, 1 clock), I2C (clk and data), 5V, GND, CEC, hotplug detect and in some cases ethernet, along with a bunch of shielding. Of these I am …