Pledges/LEDLightDistrict

Let's build the LED Light District!

The prototype of the screen is working. We can run a cool animation, and we can play snake. We can interface with the screen with a simple protocol, or via an api that is as simple as calling screen.setColor( x, y, [ r, g, b ] ), leaving the threshold to build a lot more games very low.

So let's build this sucker.

The following proposal will realize a 10 x 8 screen. A pixel is .2m by .2m so the width and height of the screen in m is 2m x 1.6m

Pledge leader: Guido

Budget estimation

• € 0 Someone's old computer that can act as a server
• € 123.92 ($152.27) Alibaba express order (the indented list below is the cost of the components as listed in dollars on the alibaba site)
  • $9.89 Power Supply
  • $88.00 LED Module Strip 4 x 20 modules
  • $54.38 Shipping
• € 28,10 Conrad order (the indented list below is the cost of the components as listed in conrad)
  • € 19.58 Enough Crimp to protect those 640 solder points at 2cm per point x 640 pts = about 13m
  • € 8,99 Solder (640 points is a lot, and this is only 100g)
• € 17.95 40m wire

€ 169.97 Total excluding import tax and vat tax deduction

• € 50 Estimate of import tax cost (I really have no idea)
• € 0 VAT (again no idea, but I have a kvk number, and I suppose I can declare this as a promotional activity (: )

€ 220 Total including estimated taxes

Of course all totals include someone donating an old computer

Pledges

• €70 -- Guido
• €15 -- Hamish
• €15 -- Justaaaaaaargh.

Current subtotal: €100

Approximate target: €220

Still required: €120