Some of the larger music concerts give these bands to the audience members for extra effect. The show system has the ability to send codes via wireless or infrared beacons depending on the system in use. This lets the operator make the audiences bands light up in pre-programmed colours and effects.
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Here's a link to a forum where they're exploring the protocols for these units. http://xylobandhacking.freeforums.net/
If you enjoy this channel you can help support it with a dollar for coffee, cookies and gadgets to disassemble at:-
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Amazing. I had one of these apart on a road case the same week this was filmed. Cool to finally find the people that are hacking on them.
Are these videos sponsored now ?
Such a waste of resources … That poor wee device! 😩
would it make sense to think that the antenna is perhaps a loop formed by the band?
you didn't turn it on 🙁
nice teardown
The two separate battery power supplies takes me back. I once had a portable tape recorder (reel to reel) which used two SP11 cells for the motor and a separate PP3 for the audio amplifier.
A short google search has revealed that Xylobands actually do sell wireless handheld controllers, that are meant for small-scale events but could be used by enthusiasts to revive the wristbands they got at concerts..
I didn't even knew these existed. That's an incredibly neat idea, although it is pretty sad that they end up being single-use only. They seem kind of wasteful, although they are really meant to be either collected at the end of the event, or kept as memorabilia.
I took apart one of these a while ago, it took me by surprise that the black wire is actually a common positive instead of negative!
so you work at prg?
Hi Clive, is maybe the LED strip itself used as antenna? Or the ground line of it, this also can explain the two separate batteries, one circuit for power and one circuit for RF, both sharing that line
I wish you would have access to the shows transmitter to give it a turn on command
Disposable huh? More disgusting poisonous waste forced down the mouth of our Mother Earth.
hackaday had a great story on how these came to be