[Robotgroup] LED art display

[Ed Xavier Gonzalez]

This looks like the technology that I saw at the display 
manufacturing company here in Austin.  I worked with them on an 
acrylic display product that was going to be edge-lit, but their 
requirements for the final effect in the clear sheet made that 
material unsatisfactory.

They manufacture a whole slew of cool LED lighting stuff meant for 
architectural installations, rather than hobbyists and toy collectors.

They're called 'Versa Tiles' from the company www.elementlabs.com 
right here in river city.  They're individually controlled 
cluster-arrays of LED's inside a modular box that is serially linked 
to any and all other units in the array.  Think MONDO-SIZED pixels 
that can emulate any color of the rainbow, and then constructed into 
a panel or wall in any configuration or final size that you can afford.

Cool technology!

I tried to set up a demo and preview at their site one time a year or 
so ago, but since we meet after eight in the evening, it wouldn't 
have worked very well to have them wait for us to show up.

Gray, look at their VersaTube product, similar to something that 
you've already been working on for a little while.  They also make 
and sell an LED rope product that is custom cut by the foot with 
pre-scored marks every twelve inches.  I was impressed with their stuff!

There may be another company out there that does similar stuff, but 
when I saw the Dell Children's Center news brief, I recognized that 
Butterfly Wall instantly and figured it was Element Labs.

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At 11:04 AM 6/25/07, you wrote:
>The new childrens hospital has a LED art wall called
>the "Butterfly wall". It looks like a wall made out of
>4 to 5 inch glass squares with diffused LED back
>lighting. Among other light patterns, it can emulate a
>pixely plane of grass with butterfly light pixels that
>appear to flitter around. They mentioned something
>about it being interactive.
>
>To see a brief video go to news8 and view the video,
>about halfway through the second 2 minute clip they
>show the butterfly wall.
>http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=186813
>
>Open House - The public is invited to celebrate the
>Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas on
>Tuesday, June 26
>
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