EddieNow that I knew I could achieve a small version of my idea it was time to start on the large-scale version.
For this version, I hired an assistant to help prep the wires and make the orbs. The total time spent between us was around 90 hours.
Some progress shots are below.
The first step was to create the diffusers for the LEDs. I went with a mixture of RGB and RGB/Warm White orbs.
After making the orbs we started attaching resistors. I made a really simple algorithm for assigning resistor values to LEDs. I didn't want it to be too random so we stuck in groupings of six values or so per channel. We only used the green and blue channels of the RGB LEDs.
Next, we Attached the magnet wire lets to the clustered + and - legs.
20 AWG magnet wire to support the orbs.
This took us about an hour to do. The only criteria was to keep large orbs away from each other.
We missed a few clusters but they all got sorted in the end. Even though I tested as I went I was still very nervous for the first complete power-up.
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