New approach to makeing LED poi.

Has anyone thought of getting superbright UV LED's and takeing one of those UV reactive acrylic contact juggling balls and crushing it into small chunks/chips about the size of maybe chocalate chips. Putting the LED's (maybe 3 per poi pointing in diffrent directions) in a bag or something filled with the chips? It seems like it would be fairly durable (acrylic chips would absorb a lot of energy, kind of like rice filled practice poi) and the LED's would make them glow, probably pretty brightly. I don't know if it would be brighter then other LED poi methods but I think it might be.

Two problems may be a)The chips would still be to rigid especially when compressed by centrifucal force, and you would dislocate your jaw messing up a buzzsaw or something. and b)The plastic ripping.

Another idea I had is onewheeleddaves sock poi with UV LED's in them instead of regular spectrum coloured LED's. white socks flouress under LED light so it should be pretty bright. And maybe you could put the acrylic chips in the socks, or any other UV reactive stuff.

Acrylic balls splinter, I'm afraid you might impale yourself... you could have the nylon back outside of bubble packing stuff outside of acrylic splinters outside of the LED? So the Acrylic would be encased by a layer of softness which can definitely take some abuse... sounds interesting. You could use colored Acrylic balls to make it ever so much cooler

the uv leds you discuss give off both purple and ultra violet light, where as other leds give off mostly visible light. the total output is the same when you sum the output in all spectrums. therefore, when a UV active substance shifts SOME of that UV to visible, law of conservation of energy kicks in and the total visible light output cannot be greater than the purple+ the UV... ergo accounting for energy dispersal to other forms, the UV poi would be dimmer than comperable visible led poi

sorry, it would have been a great set of poi, if it worked.

slainte mhath