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Register your order at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmmbfXAVF6exdEgzNFJySW1CRzJGV1FqQXMxQjY1VEE&usp=sharing
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Register your order at http://www.payitsquare.com/collect-page/37361
  
 
All prices are EXCLUSIVE of shipping. Shipping will be split across everyone who orders. Once orders are closed, we'll confirm a shipping cost. Note: shipping can be expensive from China, so if we can't get enough of an order together to make the shipping worthwhile this may not happen.
 
All prices are EXCLUSIVE of shipping. Shipping will be split across everyone who orders. Once orders are closed, we'll confirm a shipping cost. Note: shipping can be expensive from China, so if we can't get enough of an order together to make the shipping worthwhile this may not happen.

Revision as of 19:12, 19 June 2014

Phage 2014 Offerings

Register your order at http://www.payitsquare.com/collect-page/37361

All prices are EXCLUSIVE of shipping. Shipping will be split across everyone who orders. Once orders are closed, we'll confirm a shipping cost. Note: shipping can be expensive from China, so if we can't get enough of an order together to make the shipping worthwhile this may not happen.

Timeline:

  • orders final by end of June
  • payment received by mid-July
  • items shipped to US and received by 1st or 2nd week of August

LED Strips

  • WS2812 LED strip, 30 LEDs/m, black backing, silicone tubing. $6.47/meter
  • WS2812 LED strip, 60 LEDs/m, black backing, silicone tubing. $10.32/meter

WS2812 datasheet

Rain Tubes

"Rain tubes" create a "falling rain" effect with a string of LEDs. These come daisy-chained in packs of 10, and are powered off of 12V DC. The rainfall effect is not synchronized; when you first power on they look synchronized but the rate of falling is slightly different across all tubes so eventually it looks random-ish.

  • Rain tube, 50cm long, bundle of 10, multi-color pack. $20/pack of ten
  • Rain tube, 50cm long, bundle of 10, white only. $20/pack of ten

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http://bunniefoo.com/bunnie/phage2014/raintube.mp4

Fairy Lights

  • Fairy light, 5.2m 100 LED "vine", pastel color, powered by 12V adapter. $5.50 with 12V adapter.

fairy-plug.jpg

  • Fairy light, ~20 LED LED "vine", purple, powered by 3xAA batteries. $2, batteries not included.

fairy-battery.jpg

Battery packs

Will only order if we can meet a minimum of 50 total packs being ordered to make the extra headache of shipping these worthwhile.

  • 5V USB battery pack. 8500mAh. Dual output, 1A and 2.1A heads. Displays remaining capacity and discharge rate via LED display. $15 w/1x microUSB charger cable.
  • 5V USB battery pack. 2000mAh. Single output, 1A head. No UI. $3 w/1x microUSB charger cable.

Phage Pager

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Light controller and paging badge, for phage campers only. Please note quantities are limited: only 50 pieces with radio, and up to 80 pieces without radio can be made. Sign-up sheet is pending first working prototype.

Features this year include:

  • Greatly reduced cost
    • Version with radio, accelerometer, microphone, and LED driver: $20
    • Version with just LED driver: $10

All versions include:

  • STM32F microcontroller
    • drive hundreds of LEDs
    • multiple strip driver ports
    • Possible to daisy chain to create matrix display (requires you to code up comms bus)
    • Program STM32F via serial port using FTDI serial cable (same as used on Arduino)
    • 4x UI butons to make it easier to change patterns and adjust brightness
  • Simple form factor
    • USB-A plug can plug directly into battery pack with no cable
    • USB-A plug is more robust and can handle more abuse than microUSB
    • USB-A plug is for power only. It does not show up as a USB device.
    • 68mm x 25mm in-line form factor

Radio version includes:

  • 900 MHz radio pager, compatible with 2013 badge
    • SMA coax whip antenna, 1/4 wave 2" antenna provided
    • Estimate 2-4x range of last year's badge
    • Better performance in a crowd of people
  • Single built-in diagnostic LED to indicate when being paged
    • Typically combined with WS2812 belt lights for better effect
    • Features open-drain driver which can power, for example, a laser mounted upward so it's easy to find people in a crowd
  • Accelerometer
    • Disable laser driver output when user is not standing upright
    • 800Hz update rate, can work as a pedometer if someone would write software for it
  • Silicon MEMS microphone (should handle dust better than electret cartridge mic)