I once learned every move that there was,
Every style, Every technique.
Then I woke up, and forgot it all,
So now I struggle to dream.
Written by: squarefish
very rapidly led to wire breakage near handle.
Solved problem by using a "anti-tangle" connector for a telephone handset cable, essentialy this is a swiveling type electrical connector, serves same purpose as swivel on fire poi, preventing twisting of cord/wire/chain.
Written by: Imbalance
I too have been saying for some time that putting the batteries in the hand end of the poi would be a good idea, both for weight resons (for those who prefer lighter poi) and for easy changing (nothing to pull out, unscrew, remove, pull apart etc). Also this would cut down on the whole battery cover coming off or device shutting off from impact problem that so many glow toys have. So the idea is a good one and make sense from many points of view.
Written by: Imbalance
First, the chip will still have to be in the head of the poi. ESPECIALLY if you are going to have multiple LEDs, otherwise you'll have a billion wires running up the length of the chain/cord (think, 2 contact points per LED times the number of LEDs...). But this shouldn't really be a big deal, with a proper housing and good soldering you shouldn't have to worry overly much about the chip moving/coming loose etc.
Written by: Imbalance
The next issue would be length. MANY MANY spinners prefer MANY MANY different lengths. Electrical wire is not stretchy, nor can you simply add or subtract from it easily (like a chain) by removing/adding bits. So once the poi are made, they are staying the length they are. Thus you will have to make many different lengths.
Written by: Imbalance
Also, I rather doubt the wires from battery to head will hold up well after a good session of hyperlooping/tangling. I can imagine the shorts and wire breaks that would happen so often. A possible solution to this is to do some really good twisted/shielded/encased wires, but then this will take away from flexibility of the poi cords.
Written by: Imbalance
Another thing to think about is how will you encase the wires? put em through a tube? run em down a chain? a string? put em inside socks? and so on.
Written by: Imbalance
Sorry this all sounds negative, I am not bashing your ideas at all and, as I said, have also had the batteries in the hand idea. I simply wanted to give you some counterpoints to think about, design flaws that you can look for some ways around.
Written by: Imbalance
I think if you can overcome the wire breaking/shorting issues and somehow make them adjustable lengths (even by wrapping around hand like sock poi) you could have some killer Glow Poi.
Written by: Imbalance
Another thing you could add to them, if desired, is lights in the middle of the cord. Since you would have the powerpack in your hand there should be no problem having led up/down the length of the string/cord/chain. This would make for some cool visuals, also this would make it pretty easy to implement an attachment system. For instance you could have little LED encasements with some form of threaded end or a quicklink or something or other that you could attach inline down the poi chain, thus allowing you to pass the power through the attachments and be able to remove pieces to lengthen/shorten the chain. Don't know exactly how you'd get this to work, but it should be feasable to do. I'd love some poi that glowed all the way (or most) down to my hand. And flowers like that would look awsome!
So good luck!
"Don’t know how long, this one’s gonna take;
I could fail, but I’d rather be a fuckup, than a fake"
"Don’t know how long, this one’s gonna take;
I could fail, but I’d rather be a fuckup, than a fake"
"Don’t know how long, this one’s gonna take;
I could fail, but I’d rather be a fuckup, than a fake"
Cake or Death?
"Don’t know how long, this one’s gonna take;
I could fail, but I’d rather be a fuckup, than a fake"
Cake or Death?