Most Import Issue: The User.

[seclorum]

We'd love to know what you guys are doing with your 'shifters, so here is the place to answer the question:

What are you doing with your MagicShifter3000?

[ChrisVeigl]

Thank you for making this great device - you put in some very nice features and the new Wifi / Web interface is very handy !

I'm not sure if this is the right place fo feature requests .... but I'll give a try ;-)

*) what about a clock - display (wasn't that already available in a prior frimware version ?)
*) scrolling text would be cool - to display longer text sequences
*) what about animation (several images could be displayed in a loop)
*) is there a way to trigger POV display via an external event (like a reed switch / magnet or IR led) ?
( so we could mount 2 MS3000 on a spinning rod and display scolling text ! )
*) what about a "pendulum" mode which detects when the MS3000 is mounted on a pendulum -
I'm thinking about something like that: https://hackaday.com/2015/10/17/led-pendulum-pulses-out-clock-face/

[seclorum]

Great suggestions - I think all of them are cool ideas. We could think about using ntp for the Clock, hehe.

Scrolling/Longer-text: roger that.
Animation: roger that.
Triggered POV: not sure if I understand, but it should be possible to 'sync' two 'shifters around the same axis already, but I have to test that. :)
Pendulum: The onboard Magnetometer should make this really easy.

Incidentally, if you want to copy a Mode file and add a new mode to the sources, its 'pretty easy' to do that and try some of your ideas out .. ;) I will probably do some docs on that soon, for the Wiki ..

[ChrisVeigl]

@triggered POV: i once made a POV gadget mounted on a spinning rod. i used a photo sensor to detect a certain position (0 angle) for triggering the LED sequence start - and to measure time for one revolution. thus it was easy to stabilize display + scrolling also during slightly changing spinning speed (which was about 250-300 rpm). i mounted a second POV device on the other end of the rod so that the mass was equally distributed and the light intensity doubled.

[rwijbenga]

Any updates on the longer text and clock functions ? :)

[wizard23]

Long Text up to 256 pixel is now possible :)
https://github.com/magicshifter/MS3000/wiki/FirmwareUpdate
We are still working on the Clock :)

[rwijbenga]

Any news on the clock function or other nee features? :)

[seclorum]

CLOCK feature: see other issues.

[crooscroos]

Thank you for this great project. Im trying to make one of this cool gadgets but I cant find the drawings for the PCB. someone can give me a hand ? thank you on advance.

[wizard23]

Magnet Sensor can be triggered by several meters :)

[wizard23]

Base64 encoded direct led colors via WiFi request is also already implemented