Hey Guys, thought I would share a little video of my Christmas Wreath.

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Hey Guys, thought I would share a little video of my Christmas Wreath. I made it using a string of 50 12mm WS2811 pixels and the FastLED library.

The hardware is laser cut clear acrylic with the whole thing run by an Arduino Pro Mini, which is mounted around the back. Ping Pong balls provide diffusion for the light and its powered with a 5v 3a PSU.

It was inspired by @Dennis_Adams who was kind enough to share the his code which used the TCL library with SPI type LED’s. I ported the code over to run on FastLED and here is the result :slight_smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D4vBO-qqkI

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+1 for innovative patterns and animation blending!

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Full credit to @Dennis_Adams for that, @Stefan_Petrick !

I’m still trying to fully get my head around how its working… I just managed to translate the TCL functions to FastLED.

They do look awesome though! Here is a link to Dennis’ original project: http://www.sector67.org/blog/2012/led-holiday-wreath-build/

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That’s really good. Congratulations.

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i never thought of ping pong balls. this might be a perfect solution to my need for diffusion of my 13mm pixels thank you very much!!! also it looks incredible!!

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any way you could share code?

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That is very cool! Love it!

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Love the smooth transitions from one animation to the next. Any way you could share your source code so I can learn how that works?

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I gotta build me one of these. Even have approval from the misses. Only 379 days 'til Christmas!

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Hey guys, the code and the svg I made for laser cutting are here:

Sketch: https://www.dropbox.com/s/92xlsztpfipiplm/WS2811_Wreath.ino?dl=0

CAD: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jyxw86cbcl7gtup/Wreath.svg?dl=0

Have fun with it!