Moving Head LED

Role: Project Management, Programming

Team:

• Alex Champagne

• Daniel Ogden

Project Overview:

As part of project class at Langara College I worked on a moving head LED light. This project is similar to the moving head projector in that it is a Pan/Tilt mechanism meant for stage lighting but is obviously much simpler. The main light source is a 10W RGB LED surrounded by Neo-Pixels. Artnet data is parsed on an Arduino mega which communicates to two stepper motor drivers in order to control the motion of the LED fixture. The mechanical design of this was a simple direct drive due to time and budget constraints but performed well enough for our purposes.

Key Features:

• 10W RGB LED

• Neo-Pixel ring

• Nema 24 stepper motors

• Solid Aluminum Enclosure

• Status LED

• DMX loop-thru

Suppliers:

• Various Ebay vendors (Components)

• Lee’s Electronics (Components)

• Alex’s Champagnes Garage (Metal)