Heya,
Got a couple of questions for you LED hoopers out there.
1) If you had a choice, what would do you think a LED hoop needs to make it just awesome great?
2) Which is better, non-changing LED light patterns or changing patterns of colors?
3) If you could control the color changing, would you prefer the ability to interactively change the patterns while you are hooping or pre-program the patterns?
4) If during hooping programming is important to you, what would you consider to be the best method for changing the program, finger-tip (4) buttons on your hand or by changing the speed of the hoop (accelerometer sensor)?
5) How important is programming LED brightness (a, b, c, d)
a. very bright,
b. moderate bright,
c. bright,
d. dim
6) Would rechargeable batteries be useful?
7) Wall wart recharging and/or cigarette lighter recharging?
8) How many LEDs are good? (too many can be just as ineffective as too few).
9) Are there any suggestions which you would like to make regarding LED hoops in general?
I hope I am not pestering you all too much with these 'doh' questions.
Thanks for your input.
Love - tron
Got a couple of questions for you LED hoopers out there.
1) If you had a choice, what would do you think a LED hoop needs to make it just awesome great?
2) Which is better, non-changing LED light patterns or changing patterns of colors?
3) If you could control the color changing, would you prefer the ability to interactively change the patterns while you are hooping or pre-program the patterns?
4) If during hooping programming is important to you, what would you consider to be the best method for changing the program, finger-tip (4) buttons on your hand or by changing the speed of the hoop (accelerometer sensor)?
5) How important is programming LED brightness (a, b, c, d)
a. very bright,
b. moderate bright,
c. bright,
d. dim
6) Would rechargeable batteries be useful?
7) Wall wart recharging and/or cigarette lighter recharging?
8) How many LEDs are good? (too many can be just as ineffective as too few).
9) Are there any suggestions which you would like to make regarding LED hoops in general?
I hope I am not pestering you all too much with these 'doh' questions.
Thanks for your input.
Love - tron
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Re: Some LED Hoop Questions for Hoopers
Fri, April 4, 2008 - 7:40 PMHi Tron,
Some answer to your questions:
Yes, control of the LEDs would be great.
I agree sometimes you can have too many LEDs. The SpinisterZ 6 x LED Hoop can look really good, but then again so can the SuperHooper with 20 LEDs, so I would suggest as part of the programming it should be possible to choose to have all LEDs lit at some times, and just a few LEDs at other times.
The ability to colour change obviously would be good, along with the ability to also flash when required.
Then again a fast "pulse" feature would allow some nice light trails as the hoop spins quickly.
The ability to vary the brightness of the LEDs could also be a nice feature, but if this proves difficult to do then brighter is better than dimmer.
Pre-programmable would work, but so would the ability to control the hoop remotely from the side of the stage. This way several hoops could be made to change colour / flash sequence etc all at the same time as part of a routine. This could be via a pre-programmable radio slave unit, or manually by an operator.
Of course we should be looking at using rechargable batteries.
Also it is important that the switch to turn the hoop on and off should be designed so the hoop cannot be accidentally turned off while in performance, or turned on while in transit etc.
I hope these answers help to design the best LED hoop in the world, but at an affordable price..... :-)
Best Regards,
John.
(HoopGuy in the UK)
