Nanoleaf makes a variety of beautiful LED lighting products, with their hexagon tiles particularly popular with gamers and streamers alike. However, they do come at a significant cost, particularly if you want to put together a larger display. [Giovanni Aggiustatutto] decided to build his own version from scratch, with a nice wooden finish to boot.
The benefit of the wooden design is that the panels look nice both when they’re switched on, and when they’re switched off. [Giovanni] selected attractive okumè plywood for the build, which is affordable and has a lovely grain. The hexagons were then fitted on their back side with strips of WS2812B LEDs. The first hexagon is fitted with an ESP32 that runs the lights, with the other hexagons having their LEDs daisychained from there. 3D printed frames were then fitted to each hexagon to allow them to be connected together into a larger wall-hanging piece.
Ultimately, building your own wall lights lets you customize them to operate exactly as you want, and often lets you save a lot of money, too. We’ve featured other similar builds before, too. Video after the break.
Well explained with both video and written instructions and documentation. This is how it should be. Excellent job! Instructables has a very good structure too, why cant hackaday.io imitate it?
Because if it imitated it, there would be zero purpose for it…..
Instructables, as it’s name implies is meant to present instructions on completing a project start to finish.
Havkster.io is meant to serve more as a project journal for creators.
Besides, the choice in what platform to use is solely on the creator. You are essentially saying you think all creators, even those who chose to use hackster instead of instructables for whatever reasons should be forced to use the instructables format as you see fit for your consumption.
The hexagon light thing is already becoming zeerust
The nice thing about seeing how you can DIY tiling lights is that you can then add your own imagination and use different shapes than just plain hexagons – for example, Escheresque deformations of hexagons (or squares or triangles…) to create a design that is more personal, probably completely worthless commercially, and therefore escaping from the zeerust trap.
How about an M.C. Escher tesselation!
Is zeerust an idiom?
I had to look it up too… https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zeerust
It’s a small town in South Africa.
30 bucks + 1000 bucks worth of labour 😅
Sometimes a hobby is just for fun so not counted towards the cost of the final outcome. I don’t count and bill myself for the hours I spend playing games/music/sports or programming/building side projects.
I hope the creator’s name is his Hacker nom de plume… Aggiustatutto means “fixes everything”