newplumber
Senior Member
Hi
Before I begin not making sense I will try to add a schematic when picaxe forums be my friend to load it.
Okay I have 16 stairs in my house going from main level to basement ..
My idea is I am going to make a board 1"X12"x 16 ' that will be cut to form the stairs against both sides of the stair walls
Then every step will have 4 or 6 5mm white leds drilled in the board plus the board will be router'd to make room for the wires on back side,
since I want the leds to flow up or down and activated with two motion sensors one on top/bottom I was going to use
alot of 74hc595's but thought maybe there is forum here on someone doing such a thing but I didn't see any (and I am wearing glasses)
I have seen they have led strips that are controlled with one wire in a 24 bit per led chip to turn on a rgb led but the speed if i am understanding it right
goes like .4 high .4 low = 0 .8 high .3 low = 1 per bit and in MICRO seconds so very fast
When my leds start to turn on ..like one after another I am thinking my timing per led on would be 10 to 20 mill sec
so if I used 96 leds X2 for both sides but only controlling 96 i could have all leds on in about 1 to 2 seconds or even slower but nothing over 8 secs
If it was possible to use the led strip that uses a WS2812B only you pros would know how to get that speed ..shown here from kevin dude using a arduino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAa4duqMrgs <--- start it at 4:25
I plan on using a 20X2 (I ordered from picaxe cause they are my friends and price is almost perfect....perfect would be if they accepted popcans )
I tried to explain what i plan on doing, so any input would be a great health booster/or not.. incase my kids/me try to beat them(leds) down/up
I have like 100's of 74hc595s because westaust is cool and explained well so a plumber could use them thru some picaxe forum
Thanks ahead of time incase my picaxes get repo'd
your harbor freight track member friend
Before I begin not making sense I will try to add a schematic when picaxe forums be my friend to load it.
Okay I have 16 stairs in my house going from main level to basement ..
My idea is I am going to make a board 1"X12"x 16 ' that will be cut to form the stairs against both sides of the stair walls
Then every step will have 4 or 6 5mm white leds drilled in the board plus the board will be router'd to make room for the wires on back side,
since I want the leds to flow up or down and activated with two motion sensors one on top/bottom I was going to use
alot of 74hc595's but thought maybe there is forum here on someone doing such a thing but I didn't see any (and I am wearing glasses)
I have seen they have led strips that are controlled with one wire in a 24 bit per led chip to turn on a rgb led but the speed if i am understanding it right
goes like .4 high .4 low = 0 .8 high .3 low = 1 per bit and in MICRO seconds so very fast
When my leds start to turn on ..like one after another I am thinking my timing per led on would be 10 to 20 mill sec
so if I used 96 leds X2 for both sides but only controlling 96 i could have all leds on in about 1 to 2 seconds or even slower but nothing over 8 secs
If it was possible to use the led strip that uses a WS2812B only you pros would know how to get that speed ..shown here from kevin dude using a arduino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAa4duqMrgs <--- start it at 4:25
I plan on using a 20X2 (I ordered from picaxe cause they are my friends and price is almost perfect....perfect would be if they accepted popcans )
I tried to explain what i plan on doing, so any input would be a great health booster/or not.. incase my kids/me try to beat them(leds) down/up
I have like 100's of 74hc595s because westaust is cool and explained well so a plumber could use them thru some picaxe forum
Thanks ahead of time incase my picaxes get repo'd
your harbor freight track member friend