This project involves animated lights, so is best viewed in video.
I made this LED pendant light from plywood, LED strips, and flexible LED channel. Since I designed this for my living room, the music syncing had to be incognito. With this in mind, I used warm white / cool white / amber LED strips, instead of RGB strips. In solid white mode, the rings give off various shades of white for a sophisticated modern look that hides the wild side when you switch the light to music visualizer mode.
Mike Clifford
The build is fairly simple. Each of the two rings is made of a stack of three plywood rings, where the middle ring has a lesser radius to create a groove for the LEDs. The rings are simple to cut using a circle cutting jig and router, stacked and glued together. The LED strips were then inserted into the groove and covered with a flexible LED channel.
I programmed an Arduino to do music visualization based on input from a microphone and controlled the Arduino using an RF transmitter board and remote.
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