Recently I noticed the trend of people creating long exposure balls of light using light painting. I thought it would be cool to try creating several light orbs of my own using my existing Digital Poi device. The Digital Poi device was created last year using 8 high output LEDs connected to a Microchip PIC18F2685 microcontroller and programmed using MikroC Pro for PIC.

Here are two light balls I created during my first attempts tonight by slowly turning around while spinning the Digital Poi. The images were captured using bulb mode on a Canon D60 DSLR with an exposure of approx. 60 seconds each. The Digital Poi makes it possible to write text or patterns inside the light ball.

Light Ball

Light Ball

One Response to “Long Exposure Digital Poi Light Balls”

1. Andrew Hazelden's Blog » Digital Poi Spinning – Persistence of Vision Display says:

   February 24, 2012 at 12:28 am

   [...] can also create light orbs by taking long exposure photographs of the Digital POI [...]