This is so neat! :3c

Thank you!

That's awesome! great work

Thanks!

Wow!! That is awesome! Is it difficult for a beginner to make? Would I be able to walk into a hardware store and grab everything I need in one trip?
Sorry for bombarding you with questions! >_<

well, its sort of easy, most of the parts are printed so you'd either need a 3D printer or to go to one of the various services that will do that for you, after that you just need a drill for the faceplate several M4 screws and either the ability to solder 101 LEDs together on the back of the plate so you'd need a soldering iron to do that part or find a ready made string of 5mm white ones, which could probably be found on ebay somewhere (or some place still selling Christmas lights!), its not really something you could get all the parts in a shop but it should be possible to get them all on-line without needing any special tools, of course if you didn't care about the yellow surround or could make one another way then it might be possible to get all the parts from a shop

Thanks so much for answering my questions! Thankfully I have everything except the faceplate, I was afraid it was going to be crazy difficult. Thanks again! :D I can't wait to see more of your work!

Oh, nice idea.

You could post the files on Thingiverse (and a 2D file for where to drill).

That I can do! and will do tomorrow when I can get all the files in a sensible format (made it in google sketchup so will need to convert to STL) I'll post a link here when I've put them up!

just to let you know, the files are on thingiverse now, the link is in the description.

That's pretty cool!
Is it blue or white LEDs?

White, they look slightly blue in the photo but not so much in real life. they were really cheep ones 1000 for 99 pence on ebay so they aren't exactly great (in fact I can see from here ones died since last night) but they are very bright.

That's still pretty cool

You should tweet this at Byron Howard! This is super cool!

Thanks! and I would, but I don't have a twitter account and I've no idea how I'd word it that didn't sound just like massive boasting.

Aw the twitter thing, I don't blame you.

But I think 'I thought the walk sign was cool so I made one I hope you like it' would do it, if you ever decided to for whatever reason.

You haven't come off as boasting even in the slightest here, so I wouldn't worry!

A wonderful use for a Lite Brite! j/k

This gives me an idea for my arduino.

That is so cool!

Is there the "Dont Walk" red part of it?

Im guessing since you only have the fox walk to go by the dont walk is unknown to implement.

Would be cool to figure that out and add it to it so you can have a kind of functional "real" sign.

I wanted to make that also but unfortunately,.. I dont have a 3D print ,
or I have found an old sign on ebay: /

Sent you a note when you get a chance.

Unfortunately it's more likely that the way you wired up your LEDs is what killed them, opposed to manufacturing quality.

You can't use a single current limiting resistor for that many LEDs in parallel. Slight variations in the construction of every LED in a batch means that current through that circuit won't be constant. The LEDs which see the most current will have shorter lifespans than the rest in the circuit. Over time, as each burn out the current through the other strands will see more and more current until they've all failed.

I've designed a boost converter with a 555 timer to use for my rendition of this to overcome this problem. Boosted to ~70VDC, three strands in parallel will make current-mode failure less likely.

I'll post details once completed, if you're interested =3

You are perfectly right, wiring that many LEDs in parallel would normally be a bad idea however, it should be ok here as I am running the LEDs at nowhere near their full current, to actually get them to a level of brightness where you could look at them without it being painfully bright I ended up running them at only 75uA each when they are rated at 30mA (that gives a current for all 101 of around 2mA! and I have measured this and it is close) so yes some will still have more current than others BUT to be over their rating the current would need to be over 50 times greater in one rather that another.
the LEDs in question cost 99p for 1000 white LEDs so phenomenally cheap and I have commonly seen them fail even in single operation with their own resistor off a microcontroller pin (and that's run at about 10mA instead of the full 30) their not very good, I just have a lot of them. (and I can't find a reputable electronic components supplier that stocks 5mm white LEDs for less than 15p each) and in this specific case, well it was sort of strange, the LED was flickering on and off but not effecting the others in that chain so it must have been going short and after a few days it actually fixed itself, its working again now.
I would be interested in seeing your circuit however!

As someone who owns a few traffic lights, I approve. X3 I may have to take a try at building one of these myself. Perhaps even do one further and make a full version with a "Wait" mode as well.

Sell these!

FOX
DON'T FOX

If I found a town il use these.

Wow! Just too cool and very well done fan craft! XD

O.O O.o O.O ....amazing =3