[Alexander] has just put the finishing touches on his Addressable RGB LED Coffee Table and it looks amazing!
Making use of his local hackerspace, Sector67 in Madison, Wisconsin, he learned how to use woodworking equipment to build the table out of nice curly maple wood sheet.
Next up he purchased two 4’x8′ pieces of 2.8mm bamboo plywood — even had to rent a U-Haul just to get it back to the space. Talk about dedication to a project! Having never used a laser cutter before either, [Alexander] was quickly fed up with the crappy laser interface software, so instead, he hand wrote the shapes as SVGs in notepad and then converted them to DXFs. That sounds like a rather slow way to do it, but he thinks it ended up being quicker since it’s all straight lines. Two hours of laser time later, and he had a series of slotted strips to create the grid for the LEDs.
To really light up his project, he’s using nice big 12mm RGB LEDs that he’s ordered off of eBay — they came in four strands of 50 which made it super easy to wire. A beefy 5V 12A PSU provides the juice, and an Arduino takes care of the addressing. He’s even hidden the main power cord through one of the legs!
It’s a gorgeous build, and an impressive project for being a first-timer on most of the equipment used. See for yourself in the short video after the break.
Nice build! I’d love a few silly games for it, though. (Pong or super pixel bros &c)
Exactly what I thought : where is tetris :)
Great project, I love stuff like this. Im less of a wood man myself though. Something like this in a polished concrete table would blow my mind haha. Interesting writing style this time around though.
Did this 3 years ago :)
But nice arduino clone ^^
How awesome wouldn’t it be to have this as a tetris table, make it bluetooth enabled so that you can use your phone to control it. Epic!
It looks good!
I wonder how I could make it without all the tools he has available… and add some sensors:d
Can you imagine the wiring on this thing if he would have used regular RGB LEDs?
Lol, I think that’s the first time I saw a banana used to show scale. Great work, reminds me of this one Hackaday covered a while back:
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/29/rgb-led-spectrum-analyzer-coffee-table/
“Bananna for scale” is an imgur meme.
Though, they usually spell banana correctly.
Nice work, Alex! I’d love one of these for my office…
Addressable RGB LED Coffee Table
“Hellooo RGB LED coffee table!”
(Thank you Art Carney)
Great job, looks sharp!
bluetooth use > HC-06