Propellers in a Super Bowl Ad

JonnyMac

My good friend Rick "Paintball Gatling Gun" Galinson put in a lot of long days building props for this commercial -- which you'll see on TV Sunday.

-- http://www.parallax.com/news/2015-01-29/multicore-propeller-used-real-life-pac-man-bud-light-super-bowl-xlix-commercial

Ron Czapala

JonnyMac wrote: »

My good friend Rick "Paintball Gatling Gun" Galinson put in a lot of long hour building props for this commercial -- which you'll see on TV Sunday.

-- http://www.parallax.com/news/2015-01-29/multicore-propeller-used-real-life-pac-man-bud-light-super-bowl-xlix-commercial

Impressive! "Each roller-skating ghost costume has 4,000 WS2812 LEDs, controlled by a Propeller QuickStart Board with an XBee 60mW RF link."

Do they have a DieHard battery under those things?

kwinn

Impressive. Controlling 4000 2812 leds is even more so. Congrats JonnyMac.

Publison

Awesome Jon !

Just another in "Spread the word of the Propeller".

We need to see the Paint Ball Gun in a Super Bowl.

Dave Hein

Ron Czapala wrote: »

Impressive!Do they have a DieHard battery under those things?

"80 Amp / 18V drill battery"

Cluso99

Simply Awesome!

JonnyMac

Congratulations go to Rick Galinson. He used my driver and got a bit of Propeller coaching from me, but that effort is all his. He killed it.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

8 cores, 4000 leds and all you've got for me is lite beer??? Great job and major kudos to all who were involved.

ozpropdev

Well done guys!
A truly interactive version of PACMAN with beer, very cool!

lanternfish

Inspirational.

Rayman

Cool. Think I saw this on Geek.com about a week ago... Didn't know it was Propeller powered or that Gatling Gun Rick was behind it though....

dbpage

Impressive. Thanks for sharing!

Little-endian

Great job! Thanks for sharing!

Publison

Digi has this on their site:

http://www.digi.com/blog/design/how-real-was-bud-lights-life-size-pac-man-game-the-technology-talks/

Good PR for the Propeller.

User Name

Great PR and well-deserved PR.

If it's got to be dependable, if it's got to be precise, and if it has to be developed quickly, nothing beats the Propeller and the great tools and objects that are freely available for it.