[Accrs] Project Idea - Dance Motion Lights

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I forgot we had these. Interesting idea.
On Jun 5, 2016 5:11 PM, "Alameda County Central Railroad Society" <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Tony Long  tony.long at outlook.com
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> Okay,  here's an idea to think about and see what thoughts you have.
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> We have some train lights lying around.  Is there a plan for these?
> Here's an idea.
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> Idea 1:   Basic motion activated light blinking
> - low cost,  low complexity
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> Idea 2:  Advanced motion activated light with response - like the ones
> where you can dance in front of and the move you move the more the light
> flashes.
> - higher, higher complexity, but more fun.  Kids would love this!
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> We could fabricate a bracket to hold the lights and sensors ,  then hang
> it on the fence in the back or wall perhaps.    In Option 1,  just walking
> by would trigger the sensor and it would turn on and blink for 5 seconds.
> Option 2, turns on when you walk by, but if you wave your hands it blinks
> faster depending how much motion you create.
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> Powering - we could light these with LED's using 3 volts supplied by a
> battery.  The battery can charged with a solar panel.  Home  depot selling
> solar powered motion activated lights.  The sensors detect night/day so we
> might want to replace that with different sensor - perhaps something like
> a Pyroelectric Infrared PIR motion sensor.
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> Think about that one.
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> Tony
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