Flash disk mod - jumpin' pinkie pie

[thegoodhen 698]

Hi there, fellow ponies! I just finished my very simple, yet somewhat cool (I hope) project-flashdrive pinkie pie mod!

I made some arduino led chaser code and threw it into attiny85, then I soldered some smd leds and resistors and put it all in tic-tac enclosure, taking the power from usb, and it was done.

Here you go!

[BobCoffin56 20]

i love it and i want one like right now!

[RainbowDashie 767]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY... how much?

[Midnightive 458]

Thats kinda call...

[Dragonshy 2,305]

That is very creative. I would love to see just exactly how you made this. I do think a pink LED would be more accurate, but I understand that you could not. However, it's still a great invention. It would be a cool thing to make. The size is a bit big, but it's still pocket size. Good job.

[thegoodhen 698]

Hey guys! Thanks for the positive feedback! It's way too clumsy now for me to sell it, but... I HAVE HAD AN AWSUM IDEA! By angling the leds slightly and using transparent sheets, I could basically project shadow on a small canvas... Hmm... mumble mumble... perspective distortion correction... hm... E-yup! I could probably make a flashdisk with animated flying dashie on it as well... And for a reasonable price. If any of you guys know at least some soldering, I could change the schematics so that there is no need for programming (such blinker could be made out of much simpler parts) and all so that you could make your own.

 

That is very creative. I would love to see just exactly how you made this. I do think a pink LED would be more accurate, but I understand that you could not. However, it's still a great invention. It would be a cool thing to make. The size is a bit big, but it's still pocket size. Good job.

 

Hi there, feel free to check the video description on yt! I wouldn't really call it an invention, but... How did i do it? Well, I used a 1 side perfboard, some smd leds, resistors and attiny85. I then used Arduino, which is a low cost microprocessor developing platform to create the code, which is basically just a loop that's turning leds on and off, then I uploaded the code to a small and cheap chip (pretty much straightforward), then soldered it all together (using poster clay to fix the smds on place). Then I disassembled an usb cable, soldered the blinker in parallel with it, plugged the flash drive in it, put it into enclosure... For the animation itself: I downloaded a gif of pinkie hoppin, opened it in PS, determined which frames are the key ones (you can do this by heart), found out you only need 3, used it as a reference, drew pinkie on paper (my printer is lying by my side with its head out in water at the moment ), cut her out, outlined her on a thick black paper, cut her out again (to get sort of negative-now I had a paper with holes in shape of pinkie), then I glued this cardboard together with some flimsy paper to help dissolve the light, drew some details with permanent marker, covered it with one more layer of the paper (because if you can see outlines of animation phases different from the active one, it kills the ilusion), then I just glued it all together. I think that about covers it.