Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights

hackaday.com 23 Dec '12, 8pm

Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights

He started with a string individually addressable LEDs. These are the 12mm variety like what Adafruit sells (we’ve seen them popping up in a number of projects ). To mount each pixel he tried a several different prototypes before settling on a ring that was 14″ in diameter. The design was laser cut from acrylic, with sets of staggered holes to host each ring of LEDs. The final touch was to add ping-pong balls to diffuse the light.

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@FloorDrees » 24 Dec '12, 2pm
Also pretty cool: Animated holiday wreath from a string of RGB LED lights [link]
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Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights - [Dennis Adams'] wreath lights project looks pretty good. But h... [link]
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Animated holiday wreath from a string of LED lights [link]