Looking for something unique to spice up his music room [Est] decided he wanted to try making a light that responds to the music — kind of like a VU meter, but a little different. He calls it the Light Effect Tower.
The main structure of the tower was cut out of 6mm acrylic using [Est’s] homemade CNC router. He used a V router bit to do the engraving, which when combined with light, produces a high contrast dynamic with the plastic.
He designed the circuit to fit into the triangular base, which uses a PIC micro controller to sample a microphone to produce the lighting effect. The cool thing is, he’s designed it to calculate the max level of noise, to scale the sample accordingly — that way if you’re playing loud music or quiet music, it’ll still work without any adjustments to the microphone gain.
Oh yeah, did we mention this thing is big? It’s actually 1.5 meters tall! Check out the different modes he programmed in — it’s pretty bumping.
For more musical lighting goodness, you’ve gotta see this giant water and light VU meter we covered a few years ago.
Now THAT’S a VU meter!
The shape is reminiscent of some wild-looking axe (electric guitar). Not sure if that’s intentional, but I find it pleasing and ties in with a music motif.
Like something Daft Punk in Tron Legacy would have used if they used guitar or similar.
+1 ;^)
A trip to light fantastic and beyond…
“Do you expect me to talk?”
“No Mr Bond I expect you to die”
Maybe it’s just me.
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It looks like an alien’s creepy spinal column. Sharp-looking build.
Pew pew pew!
Reminds me of neon game signs from 80s.. like Tron and Galaga.
This would be a natural for multicolor (yellow and red, at least) flame effects in the tower – why just have an LED meter when you can have…FIRE! Bad video example: http://youtu.be/C-5jTMS7Ijo
This looks exactly like the visual style used in Covenant computer consoles and general architecture from the Halo games. Cool stuff.
If you wanted the reaction ‘oh my’ you COULD replace the triangular base with two plasma globes and have a giant glowing musical member…