Need A L.E.D. Color Organ For Jukeboxes

[digitaldj]

Hi All,

I wanted to ask everyones opinion on if the Jukebox Building Community is in need of a new designed LED Color Organ(Sound To Light) circuit targeted just for jukeboxes. I am wanting to know what the interest would be, if it is good i will work on putting together a circuit. If there is no interest then i will not waste my time on it.

The circuit would have alot of good features.
1. Sound input from your sound card, speakers or microphone(if needed)
2. Circuit powered from your computer power supply or if you want to control more high power leds can be configured for external supply.
3. A option setup with no outputs and external light modules will control the leds.
4. 4 controls for master, highs, mids and lows for sound trigger effect.
5. Possibly later on adding automatic audio level control so you don't have to change the controls when you change the volume on the juke.

I have alot of other great ideas but this is a start. If you want something you can throw into your project and not have to control from software and your not worried about doing patterns then this would be the way to go. Though later on this is a feature i may add and it might be software controlled or the patterns user controlled.

Here is some things i am working on!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/adigitaldj1@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=4ea5scd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/adigitaldj1@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=c8a4re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

GIVE ME SOME INPUT ON WHAT YOU THINK AND ANY IDEAS!

I can also help someone if they are wanting to add led lighting to thier project!
Jukeman

[quarterback]

I think it looks cool, although the units in your photos look smaller than I thought they'd be.   I mean, you've got 18 LEDs in, what appears to be a square that's only 3.5" by 2.5".  That would take a whole lot of LEDs to do what I'd picture as a "full sized" panel.  And, unfortunately for me, my guess is that the cost might be too high for me personally.

Also, when I think of light organs, I think of the ones from the 70s when I was a kid.  Those didn't have full color washes across an entire panel, it was always a bunch of overlapping colors behind one faceted 'panel'.   Different parts of the panel would light up, depending on which light was activating, but teh colors would overlapped.

I'm not saying I don't like what you've done, because I do.  I think it looks cool.  It's just not what I expected to see when I think of a color organ.

I like the multi-paneled thing you've got going on too, but it also looks small and doesn't appear to allow for overlapping colors, just different panels which can light up as different colors.  Is that a mini version of what you're thinking about making?

[digitaldj]

Quaterback,
Actually since everybody builds something different when they build their jukeboxes i would just leave the lighting up to them(give some help if needed) and i would make the circuits for the color organ and led lighting general purpose printed circuit boards. You can still make your lighting look like the old 70's color organs but using led technology and use any color you want. I was just showing an example of what can be done and that you can actually generate rgb colors with the color organ for many more colors if that's what somebody wanted to do. The 70's color organs actually used 7 1/2 watt 120 volt christmas bulbs and were staggered on the panel and were typically any combination of colors except red, green and blue as a combination unless you changed them. It's really all in how you want your project to look and function and the possibilities are greater now with the technology.

The reason i have 18 leds in the module is to give a complete full color across the top diffuser and seperate rgb leds give a much better way to generate the color spectrum. I spent some time getting that look and it turned out to be somewhat simple. The light grid that you also talk about is going in my juke there will be 2 of them one on each side and will be 24" tall with 64 rgb squares for generating patterns and text, later on i will add sound to light with the software.

Cost is always what you are willing to spend and the look you want. If you go buy a commercial lighting system then yes you are talking alot of money. These projects can be as kits or ready to be added to your project and more reasonably priced. Actually the cost of the leds is not really that bad and if you buy in quantity even better. Some people may think that what i have spent in my jukebox is alot but it took me 3 years to complete it and i love it. It was alot less expensive then buying a new or old one. The projects i am working on i have been able to find very good sources for everything.

Thanks,
Jukeman

[clanggedin]

If I can use this circuit to make my sound activated disco floor then I'd be very interested in it.

[digitaldj]

Send me an email and tell me what your layout is on your floor and what you want it to do and i can help you out more than you'll ever imagine.

adigitaldj1@sbcglobal.net
Kevin

[fredster]

Well, I'd like to have something like that too.

If you use LED's then you don't need any trysistors or SCR's.

I am building a jukebox. I'd like to have some easy simple circuit to use to plug up lights.

I'd like the lights to have 3 modes. One mode would be for them to be chaser style.  They go around and around in a line.  That what the juke would do just sitting.  I'd like it to then go into a theater mode.  Every third one flashing alternatley (if that makes sense) when somebody drops in a coin.

The third mode would be activated when it plays.  That would be full audio organ.

[digitaldj]

Fredster,

If your looking for something to do all of that i'm not much help other than suggesting you get the ledwiz and ask them to be able to program that in.

I am just doing the color organ for now but i'm not getting very much interest.

Kevin

[ErikRuud]

Well, I'd like to have something like that too.

If you use LED's then you don't need any trysistors or SCR's.

I am building a jukebox. I'd like to have some easy simple circuit to use to plug up lights.

I'd like the lights to have 3 modes. One mode would be for them to be chaser style.  They go around and around in a line.  That what the juke would do just sitting.  I'd like it to then go into a theater mode.  Every third one flashing alternatley (if that makes sense) when somebody drops in a coin.

The third mode would be activated when it plays.  That would be full audio organ.

You might have to build your own, unless GGG gets the functionality added to the LedWiz.

To build your own, you could do something like this: http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?module=Freaks%20Academy&func=viewItem&item_id=610&item_type=project

I'm not sure if you hjave to register at AVRFreaks to see the project files.

[fredster]

Thanks fellas.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

You might have to build your own, unless GGG gets the functionality added to the LedWiz.

Apparently, it's coming soon: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=57699.0  (video)

Just fyi.


mrC