Took over a year of designing, building and testing but he actually made a flying LED display inspired by the Las Vegas Sphere.
It spins over 90,000 pixels fast enough to show real images in mid-air while flying like a drone.

Totally useless. Completely awesome.

Full built video: https://youtu.be/HgyS1SajC6s

Hope you enjoy my Dodecagon Infinity Mirror as much as my cat!

It has 8 16x16 WS2812b LED panels. The wiring is underneath them in a channel and my controller, a Teensy 4.1 + Audio adapter, is in the base.

The magic of this infinity mirror is in the tight fit of the acrylic mirror. On both sides, a 2 way mirror is pressed in so tight that it bows inwards and draws the reflections toward the middle. When I first put the mirrors in there flat, the "infinity" reflections were not very satisfying since they bowed outwards.

The software cycles through 2 categories of animations, beat and non-beat. In the beginning of the video, the song Get It by Pocket Vibes (my friend who makes awesome music) does not have a strong beat in the low frequency so the Dodecagon displays a spectrum analyzer and then an experimental sparkle pattern that I'm playing with. It currently increases the fade speed of the sparkles as the volume increases so it's like a negative visualizer. And the Teensy's speed makes it go REALLY fast, which can be cool but also a little hard on the eyes at times haha. Then as the low beat kicks in, it switches to displaying the bursts on each beat.

Let me know if you have any questions! If you want to see more, I'm on IG @ Diod.design. My next project is an infinity room in the back of a truck, which I'll post here when it's ready :)

Just saw this on u/beamazed and was quite impressed. Do you reckon we could fit one of these lights with some ws2812 LEDs and introduce some animation to the projected light on the wall?

I mean static is nice but animated would be amazing!

been working on the audio for 12 years, and the visuals for 5 years

code here: https://github.com/Sousastep/sousaVFX-teensy/tree/main/SousaVFX

Lixie clock using ws2812b - 144 Led strip , Wemos D1 mini in HHMM format . Here I have used 3 mm transparent acrylic glass for numbers and the rest of the assembly consists of 55 mm steel M3 standoff, M3 allen screw - 6mm, inserts - M3 - 8mm and a 3d printed housing designed in fusion 360 with home assistant integration through mqtt discovery.

Hi all. As you may have heard, or read here, we have lost Daniel Garcia, the originator of FastLED, and my longtime project partner.

Dan was my project and coding partner for over twenty years, and he was my best friend. His loss leaves me heartbroken beyond words. I appreciate all of your wishes and condolences and I’m sure you understand; Dan was a light all his own.

Right now we just need some time to grieve and sort things out. FastLED will go on, with help and energy and love from all of us. But for now, we just a little time to reflect and pause.

With love and light, Mark