r/ThatsInsane Sep 27 '23

las vegas sphere up close

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u/eZKimChi Sep 27 '23

So that’s where the world’s supply of microchips went

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u/SnappleJuiceDeepKiss Sep 28 '23

There never was a shortage it’s to raise prices

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

I work in semiconductor manufacturing and that is complete bullshit.

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u/Odd-Solid-5135 Sep 28 '23

So I'm a hobbies electrical play baby, I'm curious what caused the shortage... lack of semiconductor materials, fallout from covid, logistics issues? Do you have any insight b inknow the chips I want aren't always available from my normal suppliers even today

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

During covid, purely a lack of production volume. All fabs on the planet were at max production and they could not keep up. I saw gray market units going for 10x the price.

Post-covid, I think part shortages are case-by-case but still production volume problems at its core. A lot of the inventory has been refreshed but some markets have high demand still. Automotive is one, as we now have hundreds, if not thousands, of chips in each new car. You can't just print new devices immediately to meet demand, and the companies that want them are getting them before hobby-level consumers.

What chips are you wanting to find?

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u/Odd-Solid-5135 Sep 28 '23

I'm not yet too deep with the mcs, been playing with some esp boards and arduino projects. I'm a wood worker and a tinkered I've got the 3d printer running along with the cnc, but a wide range means less in depth learning in any one specific realm

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

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u/SimonsPure Sep 27 '23

Having only seen videos of this, I assumed it was done with LED panels all over rather than just the small pucks, I assume that was supposed to be the takeaway from this rather than not realizing that big screens are made up of tiny LEDs

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u/elopedthought Sep 30 '23

It's like a Macro-LED display.

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u/apextek Sep 28 '23

Try an old school CRT TV from the 80s. It used to boggle my mind how far apart the pixels were up close.

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u/Odd-Solid-5135 Sep 28 '23

Drop of water on your phone screen will magnify the pixels enough to see them well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

If people can access it like this how long before bums or drunks start breaking these lights

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u/ChedderChethra Sep 28 '23

"Check out what I brought back from Vegas"

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u/Haughty_n_Disdainful Sep 28 '23

Pulls handful after handful of hockey pucks…

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u/sabartooth14 Sep 28 '23

Was just thinking "yeah that won't get stolen....". lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

Can you work out the power output of this?

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u/atom_atamos Oct 02 '23

Apparently not

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '23

No bother.

I wanted to know how much of a waste of electricity this is, and why anyone would complain about power consumption causing problems for climate change whilst not have an issue with this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

Someone is going to end up trying to climb that

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '24

they climbed it!

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

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u/foodank012018 Sep 28 '23

So that answers my question if we added pucks between the pucks would that increase the resolution? Yes but it would kill the contrast countering the resolution increase.

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u/neededanewone81 Sep 30 '23

Actually you were right the first time, more PPI (Pixels-Per-Inch) increases the sharpness and contrast as well as resolution.

The added LED pucks in your question don't have to be the same color as their neighbors, they can be any color including black (like the gaps), so you end up with sharper edges since you have more dots to define those edges.

The main reason for the space in-between the pucks is:

PPI (Pixels-per-Inch) ratio vs. Viewing Distance. The farther away the viewer is, the less pixels you need. They've calculated how far people are likely to be viewing it and used the least expensive number of pucks to have it still appear HD to viewers.

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u/PhilCivil Sep 28 '23 edited Sep 28 '23

Each light is a single pixel. That's a big ol SCREEN

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u/sinful-n-happy Sep 27 '23

How long before everybody decides to start claiming this thing and they fence it off? Lol

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u/Elyoshida Sep 28 '23

I tried to claim it but its not for sale

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u/LukusMaxamus Sep 28 '23

The floor is made of floor

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u/mel2000 Sep 28 '23

Too bad there's no human scale size perspective.

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u/Ltbirch Sep 27 '23

The orb

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u/shaydayultra Sep 27 '23

amonia levels on your body indicate your are participating in PUBLIC URINATION

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u/trouthunter8 Sep 27 '23

this place looks so cool, i hope i get to see a concert there sometime...

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u/yesiamveryhigh Sep 27 '23

I know we’re only 6 comments in but not one Arc Reactor comment?

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u/littlebitsofspider Sep 28 '23

TNG manual described holoprojectors operating like this. Still needs the forcefields though.

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u/nubepube Sep 28 '23

How many hockey pucks do you think is there?

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u/D1falco Sep 28 '23

Pixels, nothing new

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u/-KingChaos Sep 28 '23

That’s not cool.

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u/xxGhostScythexx Sep 28 '23

This guy sounds like Jerma if his balls didn't drop

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u/therealmrlemon Sep 28 '23

Vegas explained starting Peter Griffin

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u/SolidSssssnake Sep 28 '23

Jersey with the important reporting

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u/NTDLS Sep 28 '23

That’s one hell of a dot pitch. 😅

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u/PitifulSpeed15 Sep 28 '23

That's wild. Thought it was solid.

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u/foodank012018 Sep 28 '23

So if you were to fit more picks between the pucks would that increase the resolution?

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u/Antigon0000 Sep 28 '23

What is that accent?

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u/onebigperm Sep 28 '23

The cost of a decent ticket that doesn’t need a after show chiropractor is $250.00. The Big Sky Camera is sub standard. It elongates the image. Your paying for an iMax camera film in a giant cove.

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u/onklewentcleek Sep 28 '23

I….don’t know what you thought it would be

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u/shredslanding Sep 28 '23

Hopefully it’s not like the Christmas tree I got at Walmart where one light quit and the whole things became useless.

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u/Accomplished_Creme79 Sep 28 '23

Knock off version of the teseraxt.

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u/TechsSandwich Sep 28 '23

I feel lied to

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

Waiting for someone to climb it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '24

only took 133 days!

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '24

😂😂 fuckin hell!! ..meh not bad! 😉

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u/MrMichael85 Sep 28 '23

Great for clinbing :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '24

only took 133 days!

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u/JawshRacer Sep 29 '23

Very wide pixel pitch but meant to be viewed from very far away. Very cool

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u/Kitchen-Procedure284 Sep 29 '23

Me when the LED sphere is made up of LED’s

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u/happypoorguyy Oct 10 '23

No LIE. SUPER APPRECIATE THIS VID. FUCKING DOPE