Jul 312014
 

doodle dudes3If you’re planning to head for the playa and are looking for quick but beautiful ways to stay lit, here are some ideas:

Pocket Plasma.  A disc of plasma light that reacts to music
Rainbow Tassles.  A burst of all 10 of our High Bright and Hella Phat colors
Fuze Necklaces.  Polished quartz necklaces that radiate a spectrum of light
Cool Neon Sunglasses
Look at all of our Instant Gratification items for Cool Neon EL wire that’s ready to wear, including our 5ft plug and play unit, 10ft and 20ft options.
For more advanced costumes, our Total Control Lighting paired with a Gateway Controller.

Rainbow Tassles will need a driver.  We suggest the AA Handheld.

Pocket Plasmas, drivers, and Plug & Play kits will need batteries.

If you’d like some soldering help, project advice, or extra time to shop, Cool Neon will be having Soldering Parties in our Oakland shop on Saturdays in early August. 

For inspiration to make your own costumes, you can take a look at:

Cool Neon Electroluminescent Wire and Leather Necklace (with Instructable)

How to make a Stickman Costume

Doodle Dudes

Anthrolume

A Costume Going to the Playa in 2012

Check out our Tutorials for more technical info.

See you on the playa!

Benny, Karen and the Elves

Jul 292014
 

disco yacht2Our client sent us these fun videos of his entry into the Dana Point Boat Parade of Lights 2013, and this is what he had to say:

You see plenty of LED on the Playa, but not the default world. We prepared our CoolNeon Pixel sail for the Dana Point harbor. Then ran LEDs along the rest of the boat.

It was our first entry in the boat parade, and we won best animation in her class. Nothing says Happy Holidays more than an animated pole dancer.

Thanks CoolNeon, you made our holidays extra special.

And we know you want to know what he used: 25 x 15 Pixel Square + “Elite” 2K Controller (TCLPXLC2)

Thanks for sharing such wonderful, creative fun, Kevin. We look forward to more.

Benny, Karen, and the Elves

Jul 192014
 

 

Red Cylon Eye

Red Cylon Eye

We suspect that if you knew what a cylon was, you would want to install one. So, from Chris Knight, here is the first Instructable “Put a Cylon On It“, and this is how it starts…

Last year the comedy sketch show ‘Portlandia‘ made fun of an arts and craft trend, where craft artists would take ordinary items and ‘put a bird on it’. I fell victim to a similar trend in the geek crowd: Take an ordinary silver item and add LEDs to ‘put a cylon in it’. 🙂

When I saw the Total Control Lighting strands, the first thing that came to mind was sticking these on the front of my Jeep to create a ‘Cylon Eye’. Installing them in the Jeep was a breeze, which then freed me up to tinker with the software. I now have a multi-mode Cylon Eye with a pretty purple control module in my Jeep.

As you can see from the Instructable, the Red Cylon Eye uses the Super Density WS2812 strip on the Awesome Developer Kit.

We just heard from Chris again, and he has made some final tweaks to the Red Cylon Eye, outlined in this Instructable.