This is a 5 Pointed Star that I’ve been working on. It’s made of 100 water resistant “pixels”. The video was taken indoors but it will be moving outside soon. It’s my first FastLED based Christmas decoration with more to come.
Thanks to everyone who helped, even if you didn’t know you did. I searched this community quite often and cobbled in a lot of examples to get this working. There are few hiccups in when it changes patterns, but due to holiday constraints it may stay that way until next season.
This is one strand of 100 pixels that I bought from everyone’s favorite seller off Ali Express. I secured each pixel to the frame with a clear “zip tie”. The strand is arranged in the same way you’ve drawn a star since a child. I’m not sure how this will hold up over a couple years, but it should last this season. And the star frame is made of wood. Again, I might spend this summer coming up with a more permanent structure. The came to me around Halloween so I kind of threw it all together. I can upload some daylight pictures if there is interest.
Below is the code I’m using. It may not be overly clean, but it gets the job done.
I started with the 5 pointed star, but its not rigid without the 5 outer connections. It just moves all around like some unrestrained polygon.
Final frame is shown below. At each of the 5 “points” there will be 4 boards connecting here. I drilled a hole and then connected them with a bolt, washers, and nut.
After that you run 20 pixels across each of the 5 legs of the star (equally spaced). I secured each pixel with a clear zip tie. In this picture the excess is not clipped off yet. Finally, you connect your normal LED power and data connections and program the Arduino.
hello sir, its great project can u give me proper mounting detail with image of this start. Actually i am confuse with inner pentagon that how much led is mount in that portion.
And how much long your one leg of star.
