FastLED made my first Arduino project amazingly easy.

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FastLED made my first Arduino project amazingly easy. Thank you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1sD93PGkk

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Wow, looks great! My first Arduino project wasn’t nearly as impressive! :slight_smile:

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That’s really cool, well done

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Thanks! I stewed on this for a while and have a background in IT which made it easier. I learned a lot!

Next up is research on whether I can talk to WS2818 through Arduino…and hopefully FastLED :slight_smile:

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Oooh beautiful. What is the body made out of? Any good tips for working​ with fiber optics?

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Thanks!

Haha! The bell is a punch bowl from Party City. It needs work as I think this will be a perpetual work in progress.

For the fiber, I used solid core side glow 3mm from wiedamark. I wish the NeoPixels were brighter but I was generally happy.

The challenges were mostly mechanical in getting the fiber to seat against the face of the LED for maximum illumination. For that, I used a simple 3D printed part and tiny strong hair rubber bands to create a springy tension.

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I’ve used the 3 watt Pixies from adafruit with side glow fiber. I just got a good flat end and attached it with a surrounding blob of sugru. Holds on fine, leaves the back open for cooling.

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Very nice Project do you have somewhere some more pictures? i would be interested for a look inside the bowl and your fibeglass mounts…

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what!? so nice this jelly is. good work buddy.

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really cool! What did you use for the fibers?