Had a little fun with some led strips the other day, used the 3m backing to stick two strips together back to back, then using a 3d printed guide laid and glued them out into a hilbert curve, then wrote some animations using the wonderful fastLED library.
Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i0xC_Amn_A
That looks really good. Awesome idea!
Thanks! There’s as ton of really interesting looking rule sets that would make for some interesting patterns.
Oh yes, I can imagine.
Out of curiosity I’d be interested to see a picture of your 3d printed guide too.
guide:
full diffusive frame (assuming it’s printed with clear pla or something similar)
lsystems are perfectly suited for this kind of thing because of the way they’re drawn too. you specify a segment length, and if that length is equal to that of a segment of led strip, then you can be sure you’re always bending it evenly between leds. 
I generated these with an lsystems node in touch designer then exported obj data, and took that into maya and modeled it up a bit more to be suitable for printing
Great idea and really well executed! Thanks for sharing it–any tips learned along the way?
Thanks!
I would have totally spent the extra 2-3 hours taken to print the strip guide up to the width of the strip so I could have just stuck them in there rather than painstakingly glue / bend, every segment of strip.
it would have also diffused it better too (see second link above.)
other than that, I measured and generated everything to scale in 3d up front, and based my number of lsystem generations off of what ever was closest to 4 meters of led strips to minimize cutting and soldering.
Nice #eyecandy, I had to look at video twice to see the construction, even after reading how you did it.
@Lucas_Morgan I am a huge fan of doubling up strips using the adhesive backing. It is essentially a bidirectional LED strip. Nice work!
Very amaze! Just bought a 3d printer so Im looking to making everything and anything. Thanks for showing what is possible!