here at the lonus Media Group optomechanics and medical mood lighting
research facility we firmly believe in
pushing the boundaries of RGB technology
and today you'll witness the fruit of
literally several hours of planning
Behold our allnew electromagnetic
ergonomics device the Raba chair
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below have you ever been sitting there in the dark admiring your RGB computer
and thought gee why doesn't my chair also have RGB
lighting well I was and I did so I sent
an email off to cable mod and before I knew it a massive box of LED strips
arrived at the office I mean man I thought we were RGB crazy then those
guys were all like get on my
level anyway step one was to find a
chair the one we chose for the job was the verar 350 we hoped its mesh backing
would allow our lighting effects to shine through and the cool swoopy
construction would give us tons of options for mounting our adhesive backed
RGB strips next we needed to pop open some
packages and mock up how we thought the RGB strips might mount on the chair
using our preferred method of mechanical fastening generic zip ties we tried a
few different configurations finally settling on this this process process
helped us find the best routing for the strips around the chair without ruing
the precious adhesive which we'll need later on and without getting a bunch of
extra wires cluttering up our build
speaking of things we'll need later on though we hadn't quite figured out by
this stage how we were going to power the lights so we tested the strips the
dirty Way by having an RGB tail hanging
out and connecting them directly to a
motherboard looks fantastic I mean man
could there be anything more beautiful on this Earth I don't think
so obviously though there are a few
suboptimal things about this method for example moving around is something
that's nice to be able to do you don't want to risk tearing out your
motherboard if you need to spin quickly and deal with a cat vomit situation and
being a able to put the side panel on your rig is an extra bonus so with those
things in mind we set to work cleaning up the chair extra attention and Care
was taken to be sure that the adhesive on the cable mod cables could hold onto
the chair while bending around its complex and seductive curves we used zip
ties to help out wherever possible but in some places even those wouldn't be
able to save us if the adhesive wasn't able to hold the strips on learning from
the mistakes we made during the mockup phase we upgraded the lighting setup at
this stage to ensure that even where the sun don't shine our chair would we added
ass lighting with the only part of the chair left naked being the
headrest The Next Step was probably the most difficult we needed to achieve
Wireless operation initially we were thinking we'd try making our own RGB
controller with an Arduino so to control
each ch panel we connected mosfets to the pwm outputs allowing us to adjust
the brightness of red green and blue independently fun fact when the RGB
strip was attached to our bench power supply we noticed that the power drawn
was heavily color dependent we knew that blue light has a higher energy than red
light but we were still surprised by how big the change in power was blue
consumed five times the power of red
anyway what we were hoping to achieve with this was to use two arduinos one
connected to the ASUS or a sync port on the motherboard that then sends data
wirelessly to a second on the chair that sinks between the chair and the computer
unfortunately while this would have been possible using XPS our arduinos did not
have the wireless Shields and at this point we didn't have the time to spend
waiting on them to arrive maybe the RGB
chair will make an appearance with this upgrade at some point in the
future anyway we settled on cable mods
included solution for now this does waste some of the excellent work we did
on the Arduino but it makes it simpler to use more reliable and much easier for
our viewers at home to replicate so to power the strips we simply velcroed a
battery Bank to the bottom of our chair then adapted the included 12volt output
wires to work with our cable mod controller sure a 23,000 Milah battery
Bank might seem slightly Overkill but
come on man we're lonus Tech tips and with this sucker on here you'll get an
estimated 50 hours of RGB chair fun in
between charges bringing us finally to
the oh oh crap we forgot our pre-flight
check battery check connections check
Fat Beat check totally unnecessary check we are
good to go
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