The Minitron
A HypKnowTron is a propellor-like mechanism with LEDs embedded in the blades of the propeller. The LEDs are red-green-blue triplets. The spinning of the blades causes the pure colors of the LEDs to blend together, generating a potential palette of thousands of distinguishable colors.
There are 2 HypKnowTrons, both of which have 3 blades.
- The small HypKnowTron blades are 3 feet long each. Each blade contains a single color of LEDs. The hub contains a sound-activated pattern generator. In the absence of noise, it plays some simple heterodyning color patterns.
- The large HypKnowTron blades are 5 feet long each. Each blade contains 40 RGB LED triplets. The LEDs in each blade are spaced 1 1/2 inches apart. The position of the LEDs in each blade are offset by 1/2 inch from its neighbors. The result means that when the blades are spinning, there is the appearance of 120 concentric circles.
