Discolicious indeed ~ you certainly are the Splooshmeister Disko Shart 4 ..... Disco Shart 4 master.

giving the beams of light the middle finger as your hands wave through them really adds massive effects. This is fantastic and you have outdone yourself yet again. Bravo 👏

The time-lapse was perfect!

That looks damn cool at the end... Hey wait a minute Clive, don't you be giving us the finger!!! 23:06

Mr Clive. Long time viewer and always a big fan of not just your work, but your charachter too. You make me inspired that even tho my job as a sound guy might be extinct, there is hope for us as engineers and DIY creators. Keep up the good work, I'd love to see you doing some audio based stuff (of course i'm biased) Much love from Ireland

"It's a gin and tonic but made with rum" ROFL Looking forward to the rum and coke made with whisky!

Another great video, cheered me up from my sore leg and shoulder 👌

That is sooo gonna be a Live stream intro pic one week you just know it.

had this TOMO powerbank from banggood once, had a lot of weird stuff written on the box but the one quote stuck with me, and fits with this layout marvelously 'duality of life, is change'

Damn that effect looks quite pleasing indeed, might have to try and build one myself

Very nice work there Clive, and some very fast soldering!

Definitely onto a winner there, Clive. Genuinely looks awesome, would love that projecting onto a wall.

nifty retrofit for cheap party lights, lovely. The end effect reminds me of the quad gem dmx i have from american dj, which was significantly more expensive than the discoshart of course

Looks amazing with the color changing leds that looks cool with the bubbles @BigCliveDotCom

Yaaaay, Clive is alive! Thank you for another video!

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRTHDAY VID BIG CLIVE!!

Now imagine waking up and you see that beam of light above your head. "Oh, I must have died. Neat."

Looks great - unfortunately I'll have to watch later - we're experiencing SEVERE flooding in the "Desert Country" - Australia right now!! :-(

Clive, your flaw was grabbing the glass lens from the side! Clearly, you're supposed to grab it from the center of the lens so that everyone can see your fingerprints in full luminous glory! 😂

10:05 Anyone else assuming it was Gin and Rum instead? 🤣🤣

This looks so good, wow! Great work! This kinda inspires me to do something like this, with some logic and adressable leds or so

That effect makes me think you are looking into infinity, A very impressive effect.

Pretty cool effect if you ask me. 🐱 Something a bit alienesque about the bit at the end - sort of reminds me of the part where the rescue team find Ripley's escape pod aboard the "lifeboat". Makes me wonder if I should repurpose my 20 colour changing butterfly garden lights!

Fantastic result Clive

That’s fire & brilliance. 👍💯

Nice! All it needed at the end was a little girl's singsong voice saying, "They're here".

Another cool one Clive!

That IS a good visual effect. It looks 3-D!

In the past what I have done is this. I got a 100 pack of clear RGB leds with resistors for 5 and 12 volts and found the colors didn't mix at all so i took some sandpaper and lightly sanded the whole lens and the colors blended properly and the leds were still very bright.

I love that star effect. Gorgeous project. No pun intended.

The "Time lapse" was great !...more please.

That looks very well. It looks very well indeed. Shortest and fastest time-lapse ever.

Good work as always clive, love it

it looks so good through the fog!

It looks lovely!

The end was like going back in time to pre smoking ban nightlife.

Discolicious indeed the beams are so cool @BigCliveDotCom

That looks very good wow super cool @BigCliveDotCom

Here's a suggestion for V5 - put the LEDs in a hexagonal grid. Aside from looking better and more interesting on its own, it'll also work well the fact you have the three RGB elements visible in each LED.

I sharted at a disco once! It wasn't fun :(

when you can take something that looks like you'd find in the dollar store and just kick it up a few notches so it works

Lovely effect! Would look very pretty on plants at night. I wonder if one of those cheap sets of ‘lsd’ glasses that make points of light look like shapes when you look through them, might help hide the grid shape? Maybe snap off a lens and try that inside?

"I'm so considerate!" .. i think I know a sausage roll that might beg to differ..

Talking about the temperature, my bedroom / office / workshop was about 30°c (86°f) at mid day and is now 26°c (78°f) at 1am. And that's with 3 fans on. Can't wait for the thunderstorms were supposed to be getting.

Thanks for the video. I guess Clive had the "Explosion containment pie dish" on standby.

Gorgeous! (the circuit board!!)

Thats a very Nice built pcb board @BigCliveDotCom

I think I've seen the light ,most definitely spiritually enlightened 😉

Was it bad of me to hope Clive wasn't going to notice the capacitor was back to front ? LEDs are so much better with exploding electrolytics

Love the effect at the end, it's so good you could start manufacturing these lights yourself, well, maybe in china at least, briefly, 'til someone over there rips it off and sells it cheaper... :P

Absolutely love this.

“We’re not talking class here” hahaha 😂 love it!

I love sharts, especially disco sharts. Feel it hit your face!

It's interesting your AC mains is high voltage this time of year; mine has been down as low as 113v recently from everybody's air conditioning. Earlier in the year it actually stayed spot on at 119-121v. It would've been nice to see this version use a design like you described as your second version. Then you'd only use half the rectifier diodes and the power factor on 240v would be better. Maybe a future version 5 could keep the two identical halves here, but be jumperable between series and parallel for the two different voltage ranges.

Easy method for 120/240 dual mode. Use a voltage doubler for 120 and plain old bridge rectified for 240 like how computer power supplies work. You only have to snip one wire for 120 operation.

Fantastic effect this time Clive, very impressive. What would happen if you used those LED’s on the super computer?

To keep the LED's in a good uniform position you could 3D print a support frame or CNC some transparent PVC and add a few small random spots/grooves. The frame could be used to help position LED's and then even left in place once assembled (hence the CNC'ed spots to catch light...... and demons)

Great job. Will you be able to share software and hardware design so we can open source some really good sound to light and custom links between luminaires

Nice start!

In the past I've seen Clive having to replace "used up" capacitors in the 'capacitive dropper' circuits of low cost line operated devices. The problem seems to be common in other countries but here in the US I haven't seen any problems with the capacitors. I think that the 120VAC is so much less than the 275VAC maximum rating of the capacitors that the overvoltages almost never exceed the capacitors' maximum and there are seldom if ever any damage done to the capacitors. In the case where the AC line voltage is nearly 275VAC, like in the UK, there are times when the capacitors maximum is exceeded and the capacitor experiences a punch through of the insulation. But this causes the capacitor to isolate the damage and the capacitance drops by a small amount. Eventually the capacitor loses so much of its capacitance that it can no longer pass enough current to do its job. I guess the best solution is to put two capacitors in series, each with twice the value. The overvoltages will be half the total on each capacitor and hopefully the insulation will not be damaged, and no loss of capacitance will occur.

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Had a colonoscopy last week and that stuff they make you drink gave me the sharts plus some.

20:10 I share your joy, Clive.

Sounds like genuine excitement on testing :) lovely to hear!

I used to drink rum and tonic all the time - very refreshing!

I feel like this sort of thing would be really well suited to being a multi-board solution. The power board one would put into the unit, and then multiple swappable daughter boards that contain only the LEDs, so you can have a "deck" from which to choose, so to speak.

Clive, I found that some white LEDs will put out 2 Volts or so in sunlight or being lit by an UV or white LED. (not much current though) That got me wondering about a Light Transformer, where a number of parallel wired LEDs shine into group of series wired LEDs to give a higher voltage to bias a FET circuit. (not much current needed)

Clive nice effect. Some months ago you said that you had a kaboom coming up. I don't think I could of missed it. Will you be doing one soon? Thanks.

Positively shart-tastic!

looks great with the smoke. I wouldst like one for my Christmas lights (Its only 137 sleeps away)

Clive, please consider making a video on how you go from designing a circuit schematic from concept to laying out the PCB. I realize there are a few PCB videos on KZfaq, but none seem to be produced by people who speak English as a first language and are inintelligible. Does the software figure out how to layout the tracks?

I converted an old american optical microscope illuminator to carry an rgb led ring, but this would be an amazing upgrade! Please please please sell this product.

Well there is one way to keep the supply voltage from being spicy in the summer, but due to low number of hot days, I doubt air conditioning would be a popular idea like here in America.

You should do one with the LEDs at 3 different heights at random so the middle level is in focus and the ones above and beyond go slightly out of focus.

The extra slots in the device, could you add a rotating lens maybe with holes ccut out to make patterns, or a diffraction grating inside? im sure some of the leds never changed colour

Looking good Clive. Are you sharing any of these boards with Patreons?

-Would diffused RGB LEDs stop the lens splitting the individual colours?- You answered immediately after I commented.

Got your rave light, but no one is raving.

I can now shart at 110v! Excellent. Tired of plugging it into my dryer plug :p

seems there is at least one shop in Germany where you still can order the isel frame, or a similar, only larger one at least. But looking at it, there was realy only one I came up with. They show it as "142043 - Bestückungsrahmen 400x260mm 70 mm 400 mm, Isel" Edit: I spoke too soon, there are more distributors you can get it and it seems some different sizes as well, only I would not bet on availability for all of them. Google search for "142043 Isel" shows some more shops, including Amazon.de. 142043 seems to be the Part or Model Number

You know they are not bad, but they are the more trippy lounge bar type of lights. The lens effect is great, but do you have something no-flashy faster? A bit more chaotic!

OCD, feel your pain,just want to know what you’re talking about. Tell me more about Royal Mail, never had a parcel delivered by them, just the ninja’s that post red cards.....😂😂😂love your vids👍

How about some sort of diffuser screen between the panel and the front lens?

The RGB LEDs look brilliant, but I was wondering is it really necessary for two separate full bridge rectifiers with their respective cap droppers. Surely the two LED stacks can be series or paralleled on the DC side. This way you can cheap out on the components a bit more

22:56 done that too with my yeelight bulb. i opened the plastic cover and put a lens in front of it, then puff some vapes out.

Clive, I've noted something in all of your vids, and haven't seen anyone else comment on it, though it may have been covered in one of the live streams and missed it - at the start of each recording is a faint "dunt!" sound as the camera starts recording... any guess what causes that in the audio? Its been something Ive had as a lingering question for a while, heh Great stuff as usual, I may well need to see about ordering some disco sharts soon!

Given a board and a load of components to fit, I'd start in the middle of the board and work outwards. That way, there's nothing getting in the way of the iron tip.

I would love to buy this as a kit, with the pcb, all the components and the casing just in one, so that I'd only have to solder it all together.

Star Trekkin across Clives universe, maybe stick a small smoke emitter on the case too.

Now that's what one calls a shart!

In the USA, all international shipping of small parcels is by air. I hope that the Royal Mail doesn’t abolish international surface shipping the way the US Postal Service has.

Sounds like version two is the only one that would qualify for the CE mark 🤣. Best publish this version so that copies can be sold on various internet trading sites 😁

nice one !

YT has a speed setting so you can slow the time lapse down to 0.25 speed and get a better idea of what's going on, it's still a bit short though because there's only 94 frames.

But Clive, you never did explain where the name "Disco Shart" came from. However, I like you explanation of "Splooshmeister"

21:00 reminds me of playing Columns on the Megadrive.

i dont think ive ever seen clive as enthused as this

How about a reflector that hooks onto the glass lens mounting screws to increase the output intensity?

I would like to have seen it from the side. It looks great.

Slide a small piece of diffused plastic in front of the led panel so it doesn't look like monster LED's on the wall