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Drawings: Download svg file here Download code here Extra Info: LED strip used is ws2812b. Adafruit neopixel library ‘buttoncycler’ program lightly modified to work with a potentiometer. The peacock image was found via google images. link to the pinterest page I got it from.
Build Info: Gears made using the gear extension in inkscape. The inside gear or ring gear was also made with this extension but I inverted it. I’ll be making a video tutorial on how to do this in the near future. The ring gear has 42 teeth, the 3 ‘planet’ gears have 12 teeth…
The power adjust knob on this k40 laser cutter didn’t have a dial of any sort so it was hard to set power values for different materials like cardboard and acrylic. Here is a picture of the dial: To cut it out you could laser cut and etch it or print it out on paper…
5.6mm plywood cut using a 40w laser cutter. The ws2812b led strip is hooked up an an arduino nano using the neopixel library from adafruit : https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel . The program running in the video is one of the example sketches that comes with the library. I tried etching the front of the lamp and it…