0%

0%

LED matrix cylinder

100 WS2812 LEDs driven by a Raspberry Pi Zero in a cylindric shape out of laser cutted parts

makeTVee

Following Follow project

Liked Like project

Become a Hackaday.io member

Just one more thing

To make the experience fit your profile, pick a username and tell us what interests you.

OK, I'm done! Skip

Similar projects worth following

2.3k views

Description

This is more a test project if a WS2812 based matrix also looks nice in a cylindric shape. I am thinking about a much larger version, but first I want to learn on this small one. I am using the rpi_ws2812 python lib to directly drive the LEDs from the Pi.

Details

First test after full assembling:

Project Logs

Collapse logs

Software simulator
makeTVee • 10/28/2018 at 14:51 • 0 comments

As in my previous LED matrix project, I am using a pygame based simulator for testing the python code on the PC. Code will follow soon on Github.
LED assembling
makeTVee • 10/24/2018 at 14:07 • 0 comments

Here are some more pictures from the LED assembling:
Matrix body
makeTVee • 10/24/2018 at 05:54 • 0 comments

Matrix was designed with Fusion360 and cutted with a laser cutter out of thin cardboard.

It is splitted into two parts to simplify LED assembling and cabeling.
Height is 18 cm, diameter is 20 cm

View all 3 project logs

Discussions

penumbriel wrote 10/26/2018 at 12:00

What have you used as a light diffuser? Paper ?

Are you sure? yes | no

makeTVee wrote 10/26/2018 at 14:06

it is a veneer paper called microwood: http://www.microwood.com/information

Are you sure? yes | no

davedarko wrote 10/24/2018 at 06:56

wow, looks beautiful!

Are you sure? yes | no

Similar Projects

An introduction to the Kano Computer and how to flash a LED using Scratch on the Raspberry Pi

"Hello world!" How to Flash A LED with Scratch

Breathing LED lamp for Motorcycle using ATtiny

p.u.l.s.e v1

Anool Mahidharia

The aim of this project is to create large scale LED panels using WS2811 LED's for club an venue use.

The Rig