How to Diffuse Neopixels - LED Diffusion Material Reference Guide
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- A short compendium of various diffusion materials to use with NeoPixel LED strips. We tested plastics, fabrics, foam, and papers and have sourced and priced out our favorites. See diffusion clips of LED Foam, fun fur, LED acrylic, fluorescent light diffusions, and more.
Learn tips and tricks for diffusion and find your top 5 diffusion materials for your project.
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This is such a great video every maker should bookmark it. Just a matter of time before you’ll run into a situation where diffusion material will be part of a project because bare LED’s can be blindingly bright.
Cool video! The arguable most significant variable with diffusion effects is the distance between the pixels and the diffuser. I appreciated the way in which that was illustrated with the examples. It would be cool to discuss some spacing techniques for soft construction (like cosplay) projects.
That fur is similar to Santa hats, which I can confirm GLOW when lit
A super useful video, thank you!
An additional one to try that I've liked is window frosting spray cans and my personal favorite, matte clear coat on acrylic. Not quite as good as some of these but makes a great old frosted dirty glass look!
Great video really useful information 2x👍
Great lesson. I’ll be sure to share with my students. Thanks for your work!
Nice overview. I wonder also if some Fresnel material could be helpful. Thinking in particular about cylindrical lensing, that could directionally diffuse the individual leds in a strip and blend them together in that direction, but keep them crisp in the other direction, turning the discrete elements in a strip into a line.
This was a super helpful video! Although you left out my all time FAVORITE fabric for diffusion - organza! Organza gives a beautiful effect to single point LEDs - like a four-pointed star!
Super video. Great job! I tried several already but got tons of new leads.
This past Christmas I put neopixel fairy lights on the tree. I had an extra string left over so I decided to make a topper out of it. Went to Walmart in hopes to find something I could "hack."
Lo and behold, I found a star with a special type of diffusing plastic that gives a very radiant 3D starburst effect. After replacing the static red LEDs that came in it with the neopixels, I'm inspired to make sooo many projects with this stuff. If only I knew what it was called. 🤔
thank you this is so useful
Great detail! Thank you!
For my Arc reactor (iron man) I used a Taco Bell wrapper
So cool! And very interesting, thank you!
By the way, I've been following along ever since I saw you do a fire show at the California State Fair years ago. It's been so cool watching your journey into tech!
Awesome! I found that ping-pong balls also make great diffusers. I made a holiday wreath with them, driven by discrete addressable LEDs (the ones in silicone with wires between them).