Made this as a birthday present for a friend. It’s about 12"x12"x3" and is made with some IKEA Dioder LED bars, 3D printed LED 45 degree stand-offs (that direct the LED light away from the front and towards the reflective back), wood, and frosted acrylic.
Some upgrades/changes planned:
- The Dioder LED bars are $20 for four white LED bars and they are the same size as the RGB full spectrum ones so I’ll probably switch them out at some point (although I may design a new case that would accommodate the color-changing panel). I also found a decently priced LED 5050 light strip on eBay with an IR remote that I’m going to purchase and see how well it works.
- The LEDs are a warmer white than I’d like as I was trying to go for a white/black contrast but it’s growing on me. Only the back panel (where the LEDs are directed) was painted flat white. I’m gonna try some smaller scale tests and see how reflective gloss white, clear gloss, metallic/foil, etc is vs what I did.
- I still plan to put a black photo frame around the box so that everything will be mostly hidden when looking front on.
- There was still some light leaking out of the edges of the spiral and a sharpie on the frosted acrylic helped a little bit but I’m thinking I may need another piece of acrylic or to sand some clear acrylic myself to control how frosted/opaque it looks. Also some of the 3D printed standoffs were kind of visible behind the acrylic (but that may of just been because I printed them in red instead of white or neutral like I should of).
(The gold wall stencil is an earlier project and is 4’x4’ design made with a 2’x4’ stencil that uses the corner of the wall to hide the seam.)
-the purring dork