Rob Whitfield
11-11-2011, 8:29 PM
Been coming on 6 months since I finished this - only just got around to using it (still working on the code for the light) and I thought people might be interested.
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8ZWavgQ7rm8/Tr28Lu_31LI/AAAAAAAABHc/ckQ7CuYVg4o/s912/IMG_9002.jpg
It's got a hinged fake solid top which opens up to reveal a mess of electronics for the light - I'll tidy that up soon ;)
16 Red/Blue LEDs embedded in the light unit which shine through the birch veneer so it looks solid when they're off.
2 Warm white ~500mW LEDs and 2 ~300mW (I think, from what I can remember) RGB LEDs in the main light unit.
2 Touch sensors also embedded in the unit, one above the main light, one on the side of the light unit.
LDR embedded in the top to automatically adjust the light level/turn on the light when it's dark.
http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-As8zcYbnT2k/Tr2-545yz1I/AAAAAAAABMQ/xkqUv7gt8t8/s912/IMG_9543.jpg
The LEDs are all individually addressable so I can have them doing anything I like. I've had the time on them mostly but music visualisations (with the main RGB ones too) look pretty cool on it.
Enough about the electronics I suppose - this is a woodworking forum :)
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RR6c6nD3K74/Tr3EEWN770I/AAAAAAAABR8/lxtm1A2hJUc/s600/Finished%2B%28Custom%29.jpg
The legs for the table are 1/2 inch birch veneered plywood. glued to leave a hollow center - partly for a power cable to go up one and partly because I didn't feel like veneering anything else and I couldn't get solid birch legs.
Annoyingly the veneer's a slightly different colour on them and the filler shows up a bit more than I'd like but I don't notice too much.
The top is a birch veneered plywood box with cut off polished M10 stainless Allen Screws - not to everyone's taste but I like it.
The light unit is made of layers of laser cut birch veneer, 1mm ply, 3mm flexi-ply, 3mm flexi-ply, 1mm ply, birch veneer, jigged and glued into shape. Edges were filled and painted white. That picture is a bit old and was before I'd put oz-wax on the light unit - it looks better now.
I have lots more pictures in an album on my G+ here: http://plus.google.com/photos/114914009219195219650/albums/5673897994836676497
They're all in a random order annoyingly.
So - what do people think? I'd say it's my first proper woodworking project but I'm looking forward to making more stuff!
Rob
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8ZWavgQ7rm8/Tr28Lu_31LI/AAAAAAAABHc/ckQ7CuYVg4o/s912/IMG_9002.jpg
It's got a hinged fake solid top which opens up to reveal a mess of electronics for the light - I'll tidy that up soon ;)
16 Red/Blue LEDs embedded in the light unit which shine through the birch veneer so it looks solid when they're off.
2 Warm white ~500mW LEDs and 2 ~300mW (I think, from what I can remember) RGB LEDs in the main light unit.
2 Touch sensors also embedded in the unit, one above the main light, one on the side of the light unit.
LDR embedded in the top to automatically adjust the light level/turn on the light when it's dark.
http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-As8zcYbnT2k/Tr2-545yz1I/AAAAAAAABMQ/xkqUv7gt8t8/s912/IMG_9543.jpg
The LEDs are all individually addressable so I can have them doing anything I like. I've had the time on them mostly but music visualisations (with the main RGB ones too) look pretty cool on it.
Enough about the electronics I suppose - this is a woodworking forum :)
http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RR6c6nD3K74/Tr3EEWN770I/AAAAAAAABR8/lxtm1A2hJUc/s600/Finished%2B%28Custom%29.jpg
The legs for the table are 1/2 inch birch veneered plywood. glued to leave a hollow center - partly for a power cable to go up one and partly because I didn't feel like veneering anything else and I couldn't get solid birch legs.
Annoyingly the veneer's a slightly different colour on them and the filler shows up a bit more than I'd like but I don't notice too much.
The top is a birch veneered plywood box with cut off polished M10 stainless Allen Screws - not to everyone's taste but I like it.
The light unit is made of layers of laser cut birch veneer, 1mm ply, 3mm flexi-ply, 3mm flexi-ply, 1mm ply, birch veneer, jigged and glued into shape. Edges were filled and painted white. That picture is a bit old and was before I'd put oz-wax on the light unit - it looks better now.
I have lots more pictures in an album on my G+ here: http://plus.google.com/photos/114914009219195219650/albums/5673897994836676497
They're all in a random order annoyingly.
So - what do people think? I'd say it's my first proper woodworking project but I'm looking forward to making more stuff!
Rob