Arduino POV Prototype

This is my first attempt to create a persistence of vision (POV) display using the Arduino. The ultimate goal is to mount it on my bike wheel and have it display nice things while I ride. But, for now, it consist of an array of 6 LEDs mounted on a turning rig I made From scrap material.

Materials for the rig:

• 2 old cell phone batteries (found in the garbage) that serve as a counterweight
• A piece of metal (from an old photocopier) that constitutes the turning blade
• A fan motor from some sort of broken power supply I found in the UdeM garbage
• A piece of plastic that makes the base (also from the photocopier)
• A plastic poster edge (the things used to hold paper posters) that I found in the garbage (it is used to cover the sharp edges of the blade).
• A heavy metal block that stabilizes the contraption (since it tends to oscillate a bit when it's turning)
• A cable with a switch from an IKEA lamp I found in the garbage
  
• Lots of cable ties

Materials for the POV circuit:

• A small breadboard (it came with an electronics magazine)
• 6 red high power LEDs
• 6 1 k Ohms resistors
• A 9V battery w/ battery older

I think the pictures are pretty self explanatory.

The LEDs are directly connected to the pins 2 to 7 of the Arduino and their current is limited by the resistors.
The entire circuit is powered by the 9V battery.

So far I have done some simple patterns for the display and I'll upload the code soon (it still needs some polish)

I expect to add more LEDs to the design as soon as I get the patterns and the overall code working fine.