- Overview
- Specifications
openVolver Kit
The openVolver is a wearable grid of 36 diffused LEDs with 255 levels of brightness! The animation patterns are user programmable on any desktop platform with frame by frame animation software, and comes with 4 built-in animation modes, a microSD card, and a clear plexiglass holder.
- Overview
- Specifications
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In collaboration with our friends at Image Node, Makerbot is now shipping the openVolver Kit!
The openVolver measures 3.75" square and comes with 36 10mm diffused white LEDs with 255 levels of brightness each, able to play hundreds of thousands of unique combinations of patterns. To control the total brightness you just spin a thumb-wheel in the corner. It comes with 4 different animation modes built in, controlled by a small button on the back:
1. Normal -- a mix of fadey and strobey, fast and slow, accelerating and decelerating
2. Fadey -- this is your mellow chillout blinky
3. Strobe Attack -- COVER YOUR BRAIN
4. Flashlight -- For those times in the porta-potty where you know you best be careful.
Patterns are designed with simple to use, free animation software that will run on any platform, loaded on the openVolver via a microSD card. To get you started we’ve included a microSD adapter card so you can plug into your computer and create your own patterns quickly, or you can just modify any of the existing patterns!
Designed to be compact and light, you can hang your openVolver on a lanyard from the middle mounting hole, or place two hooks in the corner holes to mount it without worrying about it flipping over. It can be worn when battery powered, or integrated into a piece of artwork powered from a DC adapter instead.
OpenVolver comes as a kit - clear, detailed instructions for assembling and programming it are available here. We even went ahead and soldered the one surface-mount part to the board to keep the difficulty level down.
The openVolver was designed with love and has been used for many years by Image Node, a New York-based art collective that’s about audiovisual experimentation, video art, and the occasional dance party. They also confess to liking blinkytronics. Lots.
In collaboration with our friends at Image Node, Makerbot is now shipping the openVolver Kit!
The openVolver measures 3.75" square and comes with 36 10mm diffused white LEDs with 255 levels of brightness each, able to play hundreds of thousands of unique combinations of patterns. To control the total brightness you just spin a thumb-wheel in the corner. It comes with 4 different animation modes built in, controlled by a small button on the back:
1. Normal -- a mix of fadey and strobey, fast and slow, accelerating and decelerating
2. Fadey -- this is your mellow chillout blinky
3. Strobe Attack -- COVER YOUR BRAIN
4. Flashlight -- For those times in the porta-potty where you know you best be careful.
Patterns are designed with simple to use, free animation software that will run on any platform, loaded on the openVolver via a microSD card. To get you started we’ve included a microSD adapter card so you can plug into your computer and create your own patterns quickly, or you can just modify any of the existing patterns!
Designed to be compact and light, you can hang your openVolver on a lanyard from the middle mounting hole, or place two hooks in the corner holes to mount it without worrying about it flipping over. It can be worn when battery powered, or integrated into a piece of artwork powered from a DC adapter instead.
OpenVolver comes as a kit - clear, detailed instructions for assembling and programming it are available here. We even went ahead and soldered the one surface-mount part to the board to keep the difficulty level down.
The openVolver was designed with love and has been used for many years by Image Node, a New York-based art collective that’s about audiovisual experimentation, video art, and the occasional dance party. They also confess to liking blinkytronics. Lots.
