Blog — LED

Moving things along!  I have now made a Washington Capitals and Las Vegas Golden Knights jersey.  The Capitals and Knights jerseys use a vinyl protective pocket that will give better protection against water.    I went all out on the Knights jersey. It not only has the 64x64 LCD screen but also about 800 addressable LEDs connected to a WLED controller. It's also sound reactive. The LED can be controlled from your smartphone via WLEDs built in interface.   The LEDs and screen can all be powered from a single power bank.  With the LEDs and the screen using a...

Got the sound and light installation for my Haslab Unicron complete.  You can read the first blog post here. The final install keeps most of the electronics inside Unicron with only the power bank and a USB cable exposed in the rear.  The final setup has a seven segment WS2812B led strip, Circuit Playground Bluefruit (CPB), DFPlayer Mini, a 3" speaker and a compact power bank for the power.  The code relies on the existing Adafruit Bluetooth Lowe Engergy (BLE) libraries for Bluetooth control. This lets me control the sounds and lights from my iPhone or an Apple Watch.  I'm...

"A ginormous weird lookin' planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron." I got my Haslab Unicron and it is awesome!!! But it doesn't speak.  I really love Orson Wells voice as Unicron, even if he didn't.  So, I'm going to make my Unicron speak.   Below is a test run of a setup I'm working on.  I'm planning to separate the planet ball from Unicron and inside mount the electronics.  The goal is to use addressable WS2812B LED to light Unicron's maw.  I will also have a DFPlayer MP3 player connected to a Adafruit Circuit Playground Bluefruit to play...

I recently completed a contract with Klipsch to produce lighted signs in celebration of their 75th Anniversary. Check them out: .   CCHobbyFun creates custom lighted signs. Reach out if you are interested in having something made for you, your company or event.

After getting the Lego Millennium Falcon table built, I decided to build a landing pad.  Most people go for Docking Bay 327 from the Death Star. I decided to go with my favorite Star Wars backdrop, Bespin.  The scene where the falcon flies through the clouds to the landing pad at sunset has always been a favorite.   I got the idea from a RPF build you can see here.  That one was a stand alone so I need to make some changes.  I needed the bottom to be flat so it would go in the table.  I decided to make...