![]() ![]() Join us under the 60-foot Planetarium dome to be led by our educators through a live-narrated program that investigates our skies over Jacksonville. Even at two o’clock in the afternoon you have an opportunity to stare into a dark night sky and contemplate your place in the Universe.Follow a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate, the atmosphere, oceans, and the biosphere.Experience total sensory entertainment as laser lights, high-def images, and digital sound collide to create a family- friendly laser show in the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium!.(Please meet on the first floor inside the JEA Power Play exhibit by the double doors to the JEA Science Theater two minutes before the program begins.) Tickets can be purchased at the Front Desk. Topics vary from animal movement to wildlife conservation. Animal appearances may include, but are not limited to, Gopher Tortoises, Fowler Toads and Florida King Snakes. Join a Naturalist and some of MOSH’s animal residents as you learn more about native Northeast Florida wildlife.(Please meet on the first floor next to the large blue whale two minutes before the program begins.) Explore and learn about the sea creatures that reside in the VyStar Intertidal Touch Tank.– VyStar Intertidal Touch Tank in Atlantic Tails STEAM Life Academy MOSH After-School Club.Artist in Residence Request for Proposals.Yes, that rainbow background is built right into the code, although there’s one with just the numbers too. Just make sure when you’re cutting up the ping pong balls, you take the logo out, because you don’t want that shining on your clock!Īn Arduino Nano microcontroller takes care of the software end, and all you need to do is run the script provided on the Instructables site to get your clock running. The LEDs and Ping Pong balls don’t need to align perfectly, because the diffusive property of the plastic used in the ping pong balls will ensure the entire ball illuminates almost evenly like a glowing orb. They’re then fitted into a frame, and mounted on a backplate that has the LEDs and Arduino board assembled in. ![]() The individual ping pong balls need to be truncated (chopped) a little below the midline, before being glued together in their hexagonal layout. While I’m not going to lay down the step-by-step instructions here ( you can head to the Instructables page to check it out), the process is relatively simple and does involve power tools. The spherical shape of the balls means the pixels are arranged in a hexagonal layout (which makes for a pretty unique font style when you get numbers to flash on it), and a wooden frame holds the entire unit together, balls, batteries, circuit board and all. The clock uses a series of circular pixels, created by Ping Pong balls that have LEDs within them. It’s a set of instructions that you can follow to make your own! Posted on the Instructables website (owned by Autodesk), this nifty clock comes from the mind of a tinkerer by the username ‘thomasj152’. It’s a pretty rare thing for me to talk about something like the DIY Ping Pong Ball LED Clock, because it isn’t a product. ![]()
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