Make Your Own Light Show?

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:44 am

Back in the 70's Radio Shack used to have these "color organ' kits that you hooked up to speaker outlets on your stereo. Whatever drove the lights in that is what you need.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:50 am

That little $20 toy has the circuit to split the audio input into led colors for the different frequency bands.

Dane, all the old color organ circuits dealt with 110VAC lights that would be totally impractical for this application - they required being plugged into the wall AC outlet. All of the circuits I googled available today work basically the same way.

That was the beauty of this battery-powered $20 toy. Low cost, LEDs, decoder circuitry for audio, battery power.

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:14 pm

If anyone is looking for the necessary penguin -

http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBrand.htm?ID=18732&BR=759

teb · Post by **teb** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:17 am

I still haven't found the hippy-dippy psychedelic plastic sheeting for the cover plates. I did, however find some of my old bell-bottoms, just in case I ever actually do make one. I'll have to lose about 3" of girth to fit into them though, or put inserts in the waist, too.

http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/The%20Ship%201972/The%20Ship%20back%20side.jpg

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:57 am

waitaminute waitaminute waitaminute waitaminute

Where on the Tap Plastic site is the correct type of plastic?

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:07 am

I can't find it either.

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:18 am

Maybe it's plastique. Kinda like diamonique!

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:19 am

I never said Tap Plastics- don't know them. What I said at the Rickenbacker Forum was:

This company sells the material online, which is called Rowlux Illusion film:

http://www.rplastics.com/opticfilm.html

The Yellow Red, Lime Green, and Red material has the exact pattern we used, but they don't offer this colorless. The "Ripple Clear Illusion" would therefore be the closest.

You'd have to contact Rowland directly to see if they can refer you to someone who has clear.

incubus2432 · Post by **incubus2432** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:30 am

Lime Green is perfect!

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:45 pm

Hmmm ... that's my 'old buddies" Ridout Plastics in Kearny Mesa.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:34 pm

Tap doesn't stock it, and the ripple illusion Rowlux is not very close to the original, sadly. But it does the job of diffusing, and would satisfy 90% of the people who saw it.

teb · Post by **teb** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:51 pm

Unfortunately, most of us reside in that other 10%...

teb · Post by **teb** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:55 pm

...although I did consider trying to figure out how to build a bound Jetglow body where the top binding would light up and change colors.....

ajish4 · Post by **ajish4** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:57 am

http://cgi.ebay.com/Replacement-lenses-for-Rickenbacker-331LS-Lightshow_W0QQitemZ130100454725QQihZ003QQcategoryZ41439QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:55 am

"Unfortunately, most of us reside in that other 10%..."

OK, let me put it another way:

If the choice was no LS or a LS with diffusion lenses that were "close", what would the choice be?

And I'm really curious as to what those lenses are gonna go for...