Re: Hand wiring up smd led's


"donald" <donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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James Waldby wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:31:10 +0000, Rich Grise wrote:

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:48:47 -0500, Jon Slaughter wrote:
<x@xxxxx> wrote
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What in the heck are you building?

Recently JS posted a link (in a get-rich-idea thread) to a guitar
training system that has LEDs at frets on the guitar neck. If this
project is the same one he was discussing before,
then the wood referred to in OP is the wood of the guitar neck.

I don't have the link he posted, but here are two links to a patent for a
similar system:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7402746.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7402746/description.html

I haven't read these in any detail, but got the impression that
the patent covers several implementations of the idea -- for example
using LEDs or fiber optics or LCD screens at frets.

This is a highly technical patent. For example: "8. The self teaching
apparatus for training a user to play a guitar of claim 7,
wherein the light emitting transparent panels are electronically
selectable to illuminate in blue, green, yellow, and red, wherein blue
indicates index finger, green indicates middle finger, yellow
indicates ring finger and red indicates pinky finger."

Get the full patent from:

http://www.pat2pdf.org/

enter the patent number and get a pdf.

donald


If this is the project that the OP is looking at, I see why it must be so
thin.

However, the sound of the strings buzzing on what ever material he would
use may be a problem.


Which is why there is no material. All the electronis are either embedded in
the sides of the neck(original idea) or under the fretboard(new idea). The
second case is much easier to assemble the led's into the fretboard but
involves removing the fretboard. Also I just thought up of a way to easily
add and remove the led of one was to break... but it involves something more
complicated than I imagine I can do. (it's a connector and extender so you
can push the led in or pop it out of the holes)

It's not string buzz as the string never touches the stuff(unless it's above
the frets) except where fretting... but rubbing on the material long with
the material probably not feeling natural and sorta in the way. My idea
makes it much more transparent(see fretlight.com) but the main reason is
that it lets me to do "advanced" training rather than a simple finger
location thing which all others do.


I would think that an embedded circuit into the wood with a hard plastic
cover would be the way to make this.



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