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DIY "Rings of Saturn" LED Pendant Light w/ Music Visualization Mode

Michael Clifford August 15, 2017

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 Mega 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 the LED strips.

In DIY, how to, modustrial maker Tags LED, LED pendant, DIY, how to, rings of saturn, LED light, LED strip, arduino, individually addressable, SK6812, ws2812

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