Music Dancing LEDs (led strip)

Until the times of colorophones come back
Seriously, I am writing because I have a certain (or maybe a whim) idea for improvement / expansion, i.e. the bulb effect, a dozen or so ms delay in extinguishing would add a bit of charm, because in my eye it flickers too nervously, maybe a matter of taste but I I wouldn't be able to endure something like that for a long time.
A change in the software or even an integrator circuit at the output with 100-500uF electrolyte, I think it would add a little warmth to this torture tool

bestboy21 wrote:

Until the times of colorophones come back
Seriously, I am writing because I have a certain (or maybe a whim) idea for improvement / expansion, i.e. the bulb effect, a dozen or so ms delay in extinguishing would add a bit of charm, because in my eye it flickers too nervously, maybe a matter of taste but I I wouldn't be able to endure something like that for a long time.
A change in the software or even an integrator circuit at the output with 100-500uF electrolyte, I think it would add a little warmth to this torture tool

Let a colleague give his age if we are entering into a discussion about whether he likes it or not
For teenagers, the current version is probably cool.

I am 23 years old, I don't catch a teenager anymore, I wouldn't endure such flickering in any club, the bulb effect would be better.
To achieve this, it would be enough to add electrolyte on the strip feed for each color

U92 wrote:

bulb effect would be better.

This is what I am writing about, which is why the colorophones had their charm, not a streak of colorful irritation

I am puzzled by the overly simplified input circuit. The potentiometer is absurdly turned on, and besides, the microcontroller input works without any DC polarization - the negative halves of the audio signal will be cut off.

It is not known whether PB.4 is sometimes pulled up to the plus by software, and with the potentiometer they form a divider (hence the same and no other connection of the potentiometer). R5 prevents the signal from shorting to ground in the lowest position.

Justyniunia wrote:

It is not known whether PB.4 is sometimes pulled up to the plus by software, and with the potentiometer they form a divider (hence the same and no other connection of the potentiometer). R5 prevents the signal from shorting to ground in the lowest position.

I suspected the same, but I don't see any subsets in the code.

To me, it looks like the result of the work of a programmer who is not completely familiar with electronics.
The potentiometer is the other way around, there is no "rectifier" at the input (since this is to control the audio signal, it would be appropriate to at least give the entire signal, not a half) and the nervous operation of the LED.
In general, the very name ILUMINOPHONY was created for the first systems that convert the value of a signal at a certain frequency into the brightness value of a specific color. Besides, the name is Polish - abroad you could meet other LIGHT ORGAN or similar.
The rule was that color-filtered spotlights projected beams of light onto the wall / screen. The louder the given frequency in the signal, the brighter the reflector shone. So there was no "dead threshold" below which it did not shine at all. These types of circuits, however, were quite complicated; Therefore, simplified versions working "zero-one" (more or less as above) and numerous versions were quickly created - from the simplest (where simple LC filters and light bulbs were connected to the amplifier output), to more complicated (and safer for the amplifier) by the way) with a line signal input, preamplifier and adjustable (sensitivity) active filters that control thyristors or triacs through galvanic separation systems ...
Depending on the power of the bulbs used, it was possible to obtain greater or less "gentleness" of operation - sometimes desirable and sometimes not - especially when the fourth channel was negated (it was on in the absence of signal / music). There were also many different combinations that assigned a given frequency range to a color. From the beginning, the colors were basically "basic" red, blue and ... green (hence quotation marks) or - for four-channel installations - additionally yellow. Yellow instead of green appeared less frequently in the 3 color phones.
The layout from the subject was, in my opinion, modeled on the operation of such simple systems with active filters and operating zero-one, but the author did not take into account that he controls light sources with even zero inertia - as a result, the effect is somehow, but (in my opinion also) a bit too nervous. Adding capacity ... hmmm might help, but a definitely better solution would be to return to the precursors of Illuminophony - to systems with the brightness of colored lights depending on the signal level.

Hello,

An interesting idea that each section of the band should control a different color of the strip with LEDs.

greetings

Everything you write is correct, just ...
The aim of Mr. Łukasz's project was to show that it is possible to cram (as such) a fully software colorophone in such a fragile uC as Tiny13 and nothing else. This, in my opinion, is a big feat.

So let's comment on the layout built (?) By the author of the thread, not the program itself, and that there is nothing to comment on, that's another matter.

I don't really understand the idea behind this topic.
The author has not included his diagram, not his program
He even translated the title alive from the original ... (maybe at least a video?),
No building materials, nothing.
What is DIY? And what are these pluses for?

Well, unless the author of the topic and the author of this whole project are the same person, I would like to pay you back.

However, if not, then I am applying for a transfer of this thread to another section (I don't know, articles?), And certainly a kick from DIY Constructions.

398216 Usunięty wrote:

The potentiometer is the other way around, there is no "rectifier" at the input

It is true that the rectifier is in quotation marks, but I hope you don't mean a peak detector or a full-wave rectifier?

djfarad02 wrote:

hope you don't mean peak detector or full-wave rectification?

And it was enough to read what was in parentheses ...

398216 Usunięty wrote:

since this is to be an audio signal control, it would be appropriate to at least give the entire signal, not a half

398216 Usunięty wrote:

And it was enough to read what was in parentheses ...

I was reading, I was concerned that you want to give a half-rectified signal.

Justyniunia wrote:

He even translated the title alive from the original ... (maybe at least a video?),
No building materials, nothing.

The friend of the author of the thread is from Turkey, just take a look at the description ... it is hard to expect that he should know Polish perfectly, since most users of the electrode write much worse than him.

Greetings

I just mean don't throw things like that into DIY.

Returning to the topic, a rectifier, a capacitor (not large) + a resistor to ground on each output and such a set only controls the transistor. This is how I see it.

I once wrote to the author of this project with a request to send a hexa. I built a layout. It works, cool, unfortunately it is far from being a colorophone and it is not even about the lack of a time constant.
There is frequency division, but it's hard to tell which channel is responsible for what.
The second thing - you have to give him a very small signal to enter.

According to the description, everything is in line with the assumptions. There were supposed to be few elements - there is. It was supposed to be on prock - it is.
He proved that it is possible and that's it. There was no way it was supposed to work well - important that it works at all.
I built the same effect when I was ten years old using the scheme from ABC Technika. There, the whole thing was implemented on four transistors and several resistors and capacitors. It worked similarly, although in that project the light bulbs from the flashlight were controlled (because no one even heard about LEDs then). It is true that I converted it to control triacs (some Czech KT205 probably?) And the separation was done on a transformer - the input signal was fed to the primary input and the secondary input to the follower (first transistor), the other transistors controlled the gates directly. Power supply from some bell transformer ...

I am proposing a diode and a capacitor on leaving then the chaff will be a little smoother and the LED flashes smoother.

acctr wrote:

So instead of a linear function or a more sophisticated log type, we have an ordinary step function.

I wrote about it in the 10th post. Sure, it can be eliminated programmatically to some extent, but it will still not be a purely linear relationship as in "real" illuminophony (I also wrote about it).

398216 Usunięty wrote:

Sure, it can be eliminated programmatically to some extent, but it will still not be a purely linear relationship

Programmatically, it is possible to obtain a purely linear relationship (using PWM). Why should he not give up?

However, such dependence does not guarantee the best effect. As a rule (especially for modern music with low dynamics) the effect will be better if a certain range (eg 0 .. -12dB) is mapped to the full spectrum of brightness. For lower signals, let brightness be 0.

acctr wrote:

As for the comments about the lack of a rectifier at the audio input - everything is fine, because of one line in the code:
Code:
re [k] + = W [a% N] * samples [n];

for negative halves of samples [n] is zero, which is as if there was no signal

I am not sure if everything is okay for sure. Maybe I don't understand how the algorithm works, but the sinusoidal signal of = 100Hz after cutting one half has the following spectrum:

How does the algorithm remove the resulting harmonics?

@acctr
I can see that you are in this language kumaty.
Tell me such a thing ...
1. Is it hard to separate the middle tones from the highs by software?
2. Add an automation system (increase the "sensitivity" of the ADC until all the LEDs "live" and maintain this level)?

Hi,

I found this thread by accident and decided to add something. There are many correct observations here regarding, among others, analog signal input for this circuit. Positive analysis signal was sufficient for this simple experiment. In the first iteration, it was supposed to be a simple layout and I focused mainly on the programming part. In the so-called in the meantime, more versions were created, which gave _ much_ a better visual effect and the scheme was less dazzling in the eyes. Details are described in EP 12/2019. I talked a lot about this project with Ryszard Wolgajew from EP, who made some interesting projects based on these algorithms - incl. spectrum analyzer, and a small illuminophony, which I recommend for analysis if someone likes DSP on small MCU.

Thanks for your interest in the project!

greetings
/ LP