Built this a while back for a laugh...
Story goes like this:...my son and I watched a music video and the guitarist had a similar stompbox, stepped on it and the lights burst out. I don't remember what the band was nor the song, but I still have to laugh about the effect of the guitarist stepping on that thing to launch into the solo then...
We totally laughed our heads off and I instantly knew I had to build one like it but with more LEDs in a smaller box AND with a working circuit in it (because I bet the one in the music video was just a dummy for the show... it didn't have any knobs on it was a bit of a give away...).
So I present you "Darth Vader's light sabre booster of merciless doom and blinding destruction", the LEDs are so bright it actually hurts when you stare into them and when it's switched on there's a blue circle of light on the ceiling... it doubles as stage lighting for a bit.
Hope you enjoy and have a laugh too...! ;D
Cheers
Andy
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... and engage the weapon.... a total of 44 bright blue LED suck on the internal battery... venemous stuff!
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... and here's the guts before circuit is in there. I was originally thinking about a two knob drive but ended up putting a one knob booster ('stratoblaster' circuit, sounds quite nice although the looks are on this one more important for a change...) into it for space reasons.
The LED wires are insulated with clear epoxy resin.
Mohahahaha... evil world destruction ;D
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... and just another shot of the alien ship landing for good measure....
;D
Cheers
Andy
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You rule for making this!!! Didn't realize it was so easy to hook up multiple LED's. I bet your LED resistor is huge.
Having fun rules... ;D still laughing... cheers for comment!
No LED resistor in there, all those LEDs run directly off a drained/much used 9V battery that puts out 5 to 6 V (measure on DMM), so I recycle 9V batteries in there that are too weak for normal stompboxes.
The booster circuit in there is completly independently powered off the 9V jack on side, so it doesn't interfere with LED powering and circuit sounds just fine even if battery runs too low. Battery actually last quite some time and as said, it's anyway batteries that I would have to throw out as the are running low. Gives them a second run for the money...
Andy
Awesome! Must have taken a while to drill that out... I wonder will having them on different power source mean you could get away with those noisy multi color flashing LEDs... I'm starting to think of a psychedelic color version of your cool Darth Vader idea... 8)
Multicoloured flashing.... Mohhahhahhaaaa almost get seasick imagining it...!
The battle has begun.... :o
Ya could be a way to avoid noise interference as well I guess with different power source. Haven't tried anything with flashing stuff yet though, so not sure.
Let the force guide you I reckon'....
Andy
AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome. I love star wars.
Jacob
:o Haha that rules so hard!! ;D
PEDAL...OF...THE...YEAR!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bloody awesome man, bloody awesome!
J
Awesome work !
These would be cool too http://www.banzaimusic.com/LED-20mm-red.html
BTW I don't know how to wire them...
That thing is absolutely ridiculous. I LOVE IT! I was thinking of doing something of this sort with the colorsound overdriver (cherrybomb) but with different colors and not as EPIC!
Awesome job man! I cant even handle ONE ultrabright LED.
Forget Charlie Sheen. This pedal is WINNING. That's just amazing, and I want to make one.
Love the pedal! The only thing is, Vaders light saber wasn't blue, it was red. :P
Hahaha! Wow!! This is ridiculously awesome! haha :D Great job man! Very original
Quote from: nzCdog on April 05, 2011, 12:04:18 AM
I wonder will having them on different power source mean you could get away with those noisy multi color flashing LEDs
Actually you can easily use these in pedals by adding an electrolytic capacitor in parallel reversed to the LEDs polarity. I can't remember the value I used on a pedal I made with this but the larger the cap (value) more noise it filters until it's actually inaudible. Here's the LEDs I bought:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1878/ele-360/5mm_Full_Spectrum_Slow_Color_Changing_LED.html
-Kaleb
Quote from: pauloman80 on April 05, 2011, 11:22:47 AM
Forget Charlie Sheen. This pedal is WINNING. That's just amazing, and I want to make one.
Cheers for comments, yes this is more on drugs and more ridiculous than Sheen... and a better laugh too I reckon'.... less annoying and you can store it away when you've seen enough of it for a while... stompboxes rule...
Quote from: crash on April 05, 2011, 11:43:16 AM
Love the pedal! The only thing is, Vaders light saber wasn't blue, it was red. :P
So true, and admittedly I wasn't thinking of Star Wars when I made it, I just thought it's a somewhat good title for this thread..
... next thing I'm aiming for will be some pedal with a real working flux capacitor in there, now which colour was that again and what was the power requirement?!? 1.3 jiggawatt I remember or so...?
Back to the good old days.... 8)
Cheers
Andy
Those color changing LED's are soo cool! I had no idea those existed.
Quote from: k.rock! on April 05, 2011, 06:39:40 PM
Hahaha! Wow!! This is ridiculously awesome! haha :D Great job man! Very original
Quote from: nzCdog on April 05, 2011, 12:04:18 AM
I wonder will having them on different power source mean you could get away with those noisy multi color flashing LEDs
Actually you can easily use these in pedals by adding an electrolytic capacitor in parallel reversed to the LEDs polarity. I can't remember the value I used on a pedal I made with this but the larger the cap (value) more noise it filters until it's actually inaudible. Here's the LEDs I bought:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1878/ele-360/5mm_Full_Spectrum_Slow_Color_Changing_LED.html
-Kaleb
Awesome... thx :)
This is hilarious. I bet it was a blast just drilling all the holes for that enclosure, haha.
Nice build, i wanted to do one similar to this, but it just seemed too silly to devote the time to, but you've caused me to amend that idea.
BTW,
Just because I know this doesn't make me less of a man, does it?
It was from the Ting-Tings video, "That's not my name", the song you love to hate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN4YMli-Esw
@ the 0:27 mark.
NVBS
Wow !! Love it!