Hey folks! So, a friend of a friend has some private land and is doing a small festival/dance party. He asked me to make some kind of lighting for the stage. I’ve never built a permanent installation (mostly wearables in the past), and this was super fun to build.
The build is fairly simple - a 40’x48’ piece of plywood, muzaca led diffuser channels cut at 45 degree angles, a few pieces of 1x2 pine as spacers, 430 ws2815 leds, a 300 watt power supply (overkill, I know), and a pixelblaze with sensor board attachment.
Huge shout out to the sound sequencer pattern. It makes this thing come alive, and I’m super excited to see how this runs with a proper dj setup and 3.5mm sound inputs rather than the basic mic.
I’ll upload some pics of the build process when I get another minute.
Yup. It’ll have a line-in feed for the stage setup, which I’m excited to see. Will see it in action in about 6 days. I’ll try to get some video of it and upload here.
That is so cool. I have a piece that is going to a party at the end of this month, i would love to be able to do this with it! i wonder if that sensor board attachment would work with the ws2812b’s or how you even mapped it with a google sheet?! i have been trying to map one of my pieces forever. that is next level man i love it
I used that to generate the mapping code for the pixel blaze by inputting the led numbers into a google sheets spreadsheet and then copying it over. It’s a really amazing tool
I just got back from the event, and I have some more videos I’ll upload of it! The videos don’t do it justice, but it was so amazing! Love how easy it is to make things like this.
I think I want to build some fixtures that sit behind the DJ and are activated just by different frequency bands, but I also have to figure out how to get the sound inputs to reach both (probably just use a 3.5mm splitter, but you know… that distributed inputs via firestorm is looking really really nice right about now).
Dewalt is my default these days.