Electronics Making lights react to bass

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  1. diabloroker

    diabloroker What's a Dremel?

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    is it possible doing that??
     
  2. hjertis

    hjertis What's a Dremel?

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    yeah, it's possibe. but you might need a pretty advanced circuit to succed.. i can't tell you how to wire it, but i know it's possible. :)
     
  3. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    Erm...you've never been to a disco? :D

    Complexity depends on the lights voltage.
     
  4. Jedi

    Jedi What's a Dremel?

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    buy a really cheap sound system and whack up the bass and watch the power led dim and react to the bass :D.
     
  5. ConKbot of Doom

    ConKbot of Doom Minimodder

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    Either get one of the modules for CCFLs ment for that purpose or make it yourself, not that hard. Do you want to have a connnection to your sound source, or just a pickup mic?

    Just hook up the mic/line source through a low gain transistor, that through a pot as a voltage devider, than through a darlington to make the light switch.

    I'll post a schematic, but cpemma will probley come up with something better :p

    EDIT: linky http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/lit-37.html

    and a quick schematic.
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    In that basically what I'm doing is taking the output from a mic (hack up one of the cheap boom mics) amplifying it a little bit with a transistor, using the pot, to adjust the level, the cap smooths it out, the zener keeps it off when the voltage is below 5.1V, the final triansistor is missing a base resistor, don't forget that when you make it, dont want to burn it out. I think the 2222 can supply 1A, if you wan't more, hook up a power transistor to the "to load" line with a small resistor.

    If you were using a line out from a soundcard, you would have to put a resistor on the first transistor also.
     
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  6. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    Not me, guv, somebody at Maplin. :D

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  7. diabloroker

    diabloroker What's a Dremel?

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    uhh...it depends which one i want... which one is cheaper? and which one is better?
     
  8. SteveyG

    SteveyG Electromodder

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    This circuit will cause the output to turn on with any sound, not just bass. If you wanted the light to flash with just bass you'll need to add a filter, which could be something as simple as a single inductor. :)
     
  9. Xiachunyi

    Xiachunyi What's a Dremel?

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    Crossover maybe?
     
  10. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    I'd be tempted to use an active filter built round a cheap opamp, just copy the bass channel of a sound->light circuit.
     
  11. Xiachunyi

    Xiachunyi What's a Dremel?

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    After a little more searching I found this.
     

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