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I've been busy designing recently and I'm happy to report I've made some serious progress! I've very nearly got the final prototype board fleshed out and a design I reckon ought to work very well for the casing.


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I'll send off for the first set of prototype boards some time next week (still needs some tweaking and double-checking). I need to investigate a few more companies to find someone to make my polycarbonate balls. Just need to get the software up to scratch now. As it stands you'd need to have some special hardware to add new light sequences etc. into them... once I've got my head around a few things, you'll just be able to plug your hyperlights into a USB socket, fire up your software and tell them what you want!

Watch this space

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i know my ideas havnt gone down well before but this one is good, promise...

it's an add on really in the shape of flaggs with fiber optic strands woven into it or the whole thing is made of them. these would be good as they would just tap off the light and give some cool trails and they would change colour with the hyperlights.

any good?

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I'm not sure if it would work - but I really like that idea! I'm sure there is a way to make hyperlight flags

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Officaly an exception to the Poi Boys are Girls Thing

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I think it could be made to work with a bit of effort although I'm not sure how much you'd actually see the small pin-points of light at the end of the fibres. I suspect they might well be drowned out by the light from the main beam



I see no reason why you couldn't just add a flag around the existing cone - that could look pretty cool

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The nice thing about the hyperlights though, is I think you'll be able to just buy the ball with all the usb and charging stuff and no poi or anything else. I guess depending on the shape that would allow you to buy 3 and juggle with them, 2 and make your own staff/flags/whatever or 1 and CJ with it. The really interesting thing is the unit itself - the form you use it in comes after that

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That pretty much sums up my intentions; The balls are the main item although I'm hoping to have some basic sock-like things to put them in as an option. I'm still umming and arring a bit as to whether it would be better to offer a seperate (dedicated) design for juggling or whether I can get away with it for the Poi.



I'm not sure how you'd use them with a staff, but I was planning to build HyperStaffs (once the poi are off the ground so to speak).



I'm not too sure how well HyperLights will work for contact juggling either as they're probably a bit on the light side. Once again, it may be better to get some seperate housings made (from acrylic most likely)... which would be another reason to keep the poi seperate.



What d'you guys reckon?



[Edit] Just saw your post Asena; I would expect most people would want them, but I'd make it an optional extra if it looks like quite a lot of people would only want the balls [/Edit]

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Meaning you think I should make a HyperLight poi that can also be changed so you can juggle or contact juggle with it ...?

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