“I made this LED pendant light from plywood, LED strips, and flexible LED channel. It is controlled by an Arduino and syncs to music.
I made this LED pendant light from plywood, LED strips, and flexible LED channel. Since I designed this for my living room, the music syncing had to be incognito. With this in mind, I used warm white / cool white / amber LED strips, instead of RGB strips. In solid white mode, the rings give off various shades of white for a sophisticated modern look that hides the wild side when you switch the light to music visualizer mode
The build is fairly simple. Each of the two rings is made of a stack of three plywood rings, where the middle ring has a lesser radius to create a groove for the LEDs. The rings are simple to cut using a circle cutting jig and router. While I programmed an Arduino to do music visualization based on input from a microphone, you can very easily buy an off-the-shelf music controller for individually controllable LEDs, which is basically plug n’ play for LED strips.
I’ve included most of the parts for the build below, and the video walks you through the build process. I will come back and update this tutorial with more build details soon. Or, feel free to leave any questions in the comments section and I will be happy to answer.”