Do you know if the panels can be bodged to be non square? There shouldn't be a lot of fancy wiring to screw up if it's all WS2812. Can you (delicately) chop a few LEDs out and bridge the connections?
(hoping I have seeded this idea, so I'm not the first one to attempt this)
There's a photo of the panels connected to each other, each panel has three input and three output pads, and you solder those together. The software just sees one long strip, and you configure the shape of it so it corresponds to what you have in reality.
Jokes aside this is super cool. I always find LED panels really interesting to look at under the hood. I’m so picky about the ones I like to use almost purely based on vibes when filming. They’re just one of those things that you immediately know you’re going to love or hate in post the moment they hit your subject
On the topic of small LED panels, Jason of Evil Genius Labs has been making some really small LED panels [0] with addressable 1mm x 1mm LEDs (yes, individually addressable AND only 1mm on each side!). Fitting 128 onto a 1" circle is pretty sweet.
I keep meaning to design some PCBs with them [1] but it's too far down my ever-growing list of projects to see the light of day...
I have a bunch of these 8x8 panels on their way from AliExpress right now for an art project that a part will look remarkably like the video. V1 will probably be a 32x32 just like it.
I still haven't decided if I want to have a partition grid between the panel and the diffuser to make square edge pixels. It's definitely going to have a rp2350 inside. PIO is the best thing ever.
Here's the latest LED thing I'm working on (the design isn't mine): https://immich.home.stavros.io/share/oXerU8gnLn-dNHunPOg8lM8...
(hoping I have seeded this idea, so I'm not the first one to attempt this)
Jokes aside this is super cool. I always find LED panels really interesting to look at under the hood. I’m so picky about the ones I like to use almost purely based on vibes when filming. They’re just one of those things that you immediately know you’re going to love or hate in post the moment they hit your subject
I keep meaning to design some PCBs with them [1] but it's too far down my ever-growing list of projects to see the light of day...
[0] https://www.evilgeniuslabs.org/one-inch-fibonacci128
[1] https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C5349953.html
I'm feeling safer already. sigh.
Looks like a fun site though, I'll take a look when I'm not on my work computer.
LED get freaking hot fast at higher wattages and quickly found myself dealing with heat sinks etc.
I still haven't decided if I want to have a partition grid between the panel and the diffuser to make square edge pixels. It's definitely going to have a rp2350 inside. PIO is the best thing ever.
https://kno.wled.ge/features/effects/
https://github.com/wled