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NeoPixel Stick Diffuser
by Thingiverse
Last crawled date: 5 years, 11 months ago
This thing was inspired by user Protowerkstatt, thing 2783648, NeoPixel Bargraph. I redrew the design from scratch and added cylinders to shape the light emitted from each LED.
This is for NeoPixel sticks (8 pixels/LEDs per stick) from Adafruit. It has a raised, hollow cylinder that can diffuse light in two ways, altering the shape and appearance of the light:
Mounted with the NeoPixel elements directly over the cylinders, the shape is round
With the stick mounted in the other direction (LEDs not directly over the cylinders), the shape is more oblong and fuzzy, giving a kind of bubble effect
To test, use the Arduino Adafruit NeoPixel library example, strandtest:
set number of LEDs to 8
comment out the function calls except for TheaterChase
blue seemed to be the nicest effect to resemble bubbles
change time in the function call (main loop) to 110 from 50
There are cut-outs at each end of the diffuser for wires, so it's easily chain-able, to add more units..
This is for NeoPixel sticks (8 pixels/LEDs per stick) from Adafruit. It has a raised, hollow cylinder that can diffuse light in two ways, altering the shape and appearance of the light:
Mounted with the NeoPixel elements directly over the cylinders, the shape is round
With the stick mounted in the other direction (LEDs not directly over the cylinders), the shape is more oblong and fuzzy, giving a kind of bubble effect
To test, use the Arduino Adafruit NeoPixel library example, strandtest:
set number of LEDs to 8
comment out the function calls except for TheaterChase
blue seemed to be the nicest effect to resemble bubbles
change time in the function call (main loop) to 110 from 50
There are cut-outs at each end of the diffuser for wires, so it's easily chain-able, to add more units..