Chromance
Big, bold rainbow-glowing wall art that features the king of shapes - the hexagon. This project was designed to work with an EmotiBit wristband to display biometric data, but it doesn't need one! A gorgeous animated ripple effect will automatically kick in after just a few seconds.
Project video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6n8XLmZ__I
Instructions: https://voidstar.dozuki.com/Guide/Chromance+Assembly+Instructions/6 (PDF in the repo may be out of date)
The following information is for my configuration. Feel free to build your own - the code is very easy to edit to accommodate yours
Bill of materials:
- 10m LED channel w/ white diffuser, pref. black - https://amzn.to/3nFEC3w
- 10m DotStar LED tape, 60 pixels/m - https://www.adafruit.com/product/2239?length=4
- OR: 10m WS2812B (NeoPixel) LED tape, 60 pixels/m - https://amzn.to/3gTGzYS
- 1x Node32S-style ESP32 module - https://amzn.to/2QO9brO
- 2.54mm headers - https://amzn.to/3ujX4S0
- 1x 8-position 2.54mm-pitch terminal - https://amzn.to/3uerfKd
- 1x 2-position 5mm-pitch terminal - https://amzn.to/3gU5WJV
- 1x 2.1mm barrel jack, PCB mount - https://amzn.to/33bmpRS
- Stripboard - https://amzn.to/3aXs2Yc
- Epoxy (I like JB Kwik-Weld) - https://amzn.to/3xHL1jp
- 5V PSU w/ 2.1mm barrel plug 5A or higher - https://amzn.to/2RkIL0A
- 1/2" wide double stick tape, at least 3m - https://amzn.to/3gT8mst
- 3D printer filament - I used carbon-fiber PLA - https://amzn.to/3xHIwh6
- Lots of wire, solder, and flux
- Hot glue
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3D print list:
- 1x TopLeftNode.stl
- 1x TopRightNode.stl
- 3x TopCenterNode.stl
- 20x RegularNode.stl