“Hi, I am Giovanni Aggiustatutto and welcome to this Instructable! In this guide we will build some RGB lights to hang on the wall, which have some details that I think are very interesting. In fact, these six wooden hexagons that have LEDs behind them can be put in the combination we want to form different geometries. Also, one of the hexagons has hidden buttons, to turn the lights on or off and change the effects. The first of these hexagons contains a board connected to our Wifi network, which allows you to control the LEDs from your smartphone. If you hadn’t figured it out yet, the idea for this project came to me because I had wanted to put Nanoleaf light panels in my room for a long time, but the price was always a bit too high. So I designed and build my own version, in order to get a similar, and maybe better, effect while spending a lot less, and also having some fun. In the end, I think the light panels I’ve built look great, both when they are lit and when they are off.
To make this project, I used:
- 6 pieces of okumè 8 mm plywood (I bought 7 of them in case I messed up something)
- 3 m of Addressable WS2812B LED strip with 60 LEDs per meter
- ESP32 board (D1 mini format is best as it is smaller)
- 4 12 mm tactile buttons with cap
- 6 3-pin extension cables for addressable LEDs (the ones with an input and an output connector)
- White extension cable with DC barrel jack
- 5V 4A good quality power supply
- 62 M3 threaded inserts
- 20 M3x12 mm screws
- 20 15 mm wood screws
- Thin copper wires for connections
Tools I used for this project:
- 3D printer with white PLA filament
- Soldering iron
- Hot glue
- Drill press with 13 mm hole saw (or forstner bit)
- Wood saw
- Electric sander
- Screwdrivers, pliers and other basic tools”