21st century graffiti: LEDs

[John Gutmann]

I was just watching "Attack of the Show!" and the had a segment in it about make magizine. They were showing off their "roomba battle bots" $@#$@#$@#$@# fighting and the last thing they had on was a new kind of graffiti. It is just an LED, button battery, and a magnet all wrapped together with tape. with these the LED lights up and you can throw them on anything metal and they will stick. They said they usually last a couple weeks. I just though this was pretty cool.


http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/7D...C001143E7E506/

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

with these the LED lights up and you can throw them on anything metal and they will stick. They said they usually last a couple weeks. I just though this was pretty cool.

Unfortunately, it's all "look at the pretty colours", and not, "I'm throwing batteries around, where they can't easily be cleaned up".

The concept is interesting, and maybe even profitable, as a fridge magnet, but it's totally irresponsible to be plastering these where they don't belong. Would you like some bored teenager sticking these to your car, or your house, or to road signs, or other such things? If you would, kindly lend me a paint marker, so that I can sign your front door.

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

$@#$@#$@#$@# fighting

Cockfighting? Robots? Did they attach razor blades to the Roombas, or something?

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Unfortunately, it's all "look at the pretty colours", and not, "I'm throwing batteries around, where they can't easily be cleaned up".

The concept is interesting, and maybe even profitable, as a fridge magnet, but it's totally irresponsible to be plastering these where they don't belong. Would you like some bored teenager sticking these to your car, or your house, or to road signs, or other such things? If you would, kindly lend me a paint marker, so that I can sign your front door.

Well, they're just magnets with LEDs... you can easily take them off, unlike a marker.

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

Well, they're just magnets with LEDs... you can easily take them off, unlike a marker.

Take them off of the 20-foot tall steel bridge, on to which you threw them?

Someone has to clean it up—it's like chewing gum on the sidewalk.

[Morgan Gillespie]

I love diodes but putting little magnets on them so they stick to things I think is a bad idea. Not from a market standpoint but from a public standpoint, these things will get stuck to bridges, road signs, cars, kids braces (), PUBLIC COMPUTER MONITORS!, ATMs, and under chairs. These things will be everywhere, soon they will make blinking ones if they haven't already, people will get a large number of these and put them on road signs, distracting drivers, causing crashes.

Vote yes to the Bill Against LED Graffiti, (if you say it aloud the last two words rhyme)...

[John Gutmann]

I myself am not committing this act but I simply thought it was interesting how much literally EVERYTHING is evolving. even graffiti is evolving. That is all. Plus it is pretty expensive, to buy batteries and the magnets. If I am going to make them they are going to be on my newly painted car!.........or fridge, or all over my room.

[nparikh]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

I was just watching "Attack of the Show!" and the had a segment in it about make magizine. They were showing off their "roomba battle bots" $@#$@#$@#$@# fighting and the last thing they had on was a new kind of graffiti. It is just an LED, button battery, and a magnet all wrapped together with tape. with these the LED lights up and you can throw them on anything metal and they will stick. They said they usually last a couple weeks. I just though this was pretty cool.


http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/7D...C001143E7E506/

Wow that's really cool. I heard of instructables somewhere else too .

[Joe Matt]

If it's on G4, it's not worth my time.....

sorry, still bitter about TechTV and G4's parent company trying to buy Disney and sell it off for parts and keeping just ESPN....

anyway, I like the idea of little throw away LEDs, only if the LEDs were MUCH cheaper, like a few bucks for hundereds.

[BuddyB309]

Putting aside the fact that graffiti symbolizes gangs, Good graffiti is actually nice to look at on a dirty brick wall, I think so (But i don't make graffiti.) Its very colorful if done correctly. I think these little magnets things would be cool. The only problem with the lights is the "hey-lets-show-off-toward-my-friends" actions that general teens do.

plus don't teams hand out "blinky lights" during the competition?

[Morgan Gillespie]

I love graffiti, it looks great to put into 3d scenes... I am also bitter about the loss of tech tv, I miss Eye Drops...

[Josh Goodman]

Ha! Just imagine. In 2008 all the FRC teams will become gangs and leave their LED tags everywhere. Geek Gang Wars.

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by Mercury Rising

I love graffiti, it looks great to put into 3d scenes... I am also bitter about the loss of tech tv, I miss Eye Drops...

Eye drops why did they cancel it? at least they didn't get rid of X-play. thats the only thing i watch on there.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

Good graffiti is actually nice to look at on a dirty brick wall

Originally Posted by Mercury Rising

I love graffiti.

You both don't live in Los Angeles.

Originally Posted by JGjedi10

Ha! Just imagine. In 2008 all the FRC teams will become gangs and leave their LED tags everywhere. Geek Gang Wars.

is right. I really hope this never happens.

[kio_chan176]

I just recently got braces, and if I start playing with one of those, I'll start trying to stick them to my braces (because of my sick curiosity), and I don't think that's a very good idea. Curiosity killed the cat. Meow.

[Gabe]

I think almost everyone will say that graffiti is a form of vandalism. In that case, LED graffiti would be illegal in most any state. I don't know about you, but having dozens of little light, blinking or not, would be irritating and distracting.