🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📺 The video discusses the creation of a massive LED sphere in Las Vegas. 00:27 🌐 The team decided on an 8ft diameter for their sphere and plans for a smaller 3D printable version. 01:10 🎮 They designed the sphere to have consistent pixel resolution at the top and bottom as well as the middle. 02:05 🪚 The frame was constructed with five horizontal rings, 18 vertical ribs, and 77 rings of pixels. 02:48 💡 The team painstakingly added 20,000 pixels to the sphere using 1-inch spaced pixel strap. 04:13 ⚙️ They used a Kulp 32 controller with 29 data outputs and 700 LEDs per channel to control the sphere's lighting effects. 05:11 🔌 The sphere is powered by two 12-volt 100-amp power supplies and is controlled via an ethernet connection. 06:07 🎨 X lights software is used for creating designs and sequences for the LED sphere. 07:02 💥 The video showcases the LED sphere in action with various impressive lighting effects. 10:45 🙌 The video ends with a thank you to the audience for watching. Made with HARPA AI
This is by far one of the greatest LED DIY projects I've ever followed to date. The effort is just crazy but super worth it. Thanks so much for sharing with the world! ❤
This is fantastic, I gotta respect the sheer amount of work and time spent on this project...I love my ws2812b's i just don't get the time to do things on this scale....plus power is very expensive in the UK right now...huge respect to you and all who helped.
What an awesome project..... and to get your family involved is even better. Thanks for not only doing this, but making the video and sharing it. Cheers!
I was there 2 weeks ago, and saw it in person for the first time. Attended the U2 concert this week and took some close-up of their "pixels". Each pixel contains 40-something smaller lights. It's pretty impressive.
@@DrZzs The Postcard from Earth movie shows off the features of the inside, 4D features, really impressive. The concert was really intimate with the huge screen. And the outside is fun with the animations day round. Your sphere was fun too, came out really nice. Did this need a lot of power injection, or was that not needed with the 29 connections to the controller?
Gentleman, thanks for the idea, links and excellent explanation of each step. I'm geographically lucky, and due to my former employment, connected to both Daktronics and Digikey. Also, Daktronics' manufacturing facility for billboards is about 5 miles from my house. As billboards are made from square, approximately 200 millimeter panels, mine wouldn't be perfectly round, and made from decommissioned parts. I've inquired as to what they have in extremely inexpensive parts, I'm hoping for panels with 5-millimeter led spacing, and plan to start with one about half the size of yours. I've decided to use Daktronics components as I have worked on their boards since the mid 1980's when the pixels where micro incandescent lamps behind round RGB caps, and as I worked my up the corporate ladder in my former industry, I eventually ended up purchasing products from them. Hopefully I can convince the local tech college to help with the design and welding of the repurposed aluminum from the billboard. What do you think of putting the object on a pedestal? this way a hatch could be paced on the bottom for access. Unfortunately going this route will mean dealing with proprietary software, but my former technical crew are excellent at creating mods for Daktronics control modules (and they work for beer). I'll also have issues dealing with heat dissipation which will greatly increase my power consumption. Thanks again for the great idea, and great video! I have no idea why RUclips's algorithm suggested your video this morning, but I'm glad it did. Then of course I have to convince my wife...
Oh man! I am excited to see if you can convince your wife! Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness then ask for permission. HA! Please join the discord server (link in the description). I would love to see the progress of your project! I'd also like to chat with you some more about the billboard stuff!
It looks awesome. You said 20K pixels right? Numbers go up fast as you need to wrap all those around a sphere. When you look it at any angle what sort of resolution do you see?
Yes. You are probably right about the amount of pixels you could see looking at it straight on. The best videos are the ones with high contrast. Like the pumpkin faces etc.
This is an incredible undertaking. I’ve been researching for spherical wire frames that I can wrap with pixels somehow. Strips may work but the fixed led spacing seems to make it difficult to align the layers. I’m definitely inspired by your project. Thanks!
I'm glad you were inspired by it! That is why we make the things we do. This was quite the undertaking! Aligning the layers is next level stuff. You can't have them completely aligned because of the pitch of the leds and the diameter of the ring just won't line up every layer. You could align a section in front of it, but then it will vary as you move from the center. Once you have thousand of LEDs on at a time that alignment is not so important in my opinion. You should join our discord channel. Lots of cool stuff happening there.
Some of the effects look much better than the others, the end result is very good.. Need some snow globes and christmas ornament style animations, and probably more eyeballs and pumpkins for halloween. Size, materials and power seem to be a challenge on this one.. Way out of my budget for the big one built here for sure but I wonder about having a bunch of basket ball or beach ball size ones along my driveway with animated pumpkins, eyes etc.. I can't wait to see the more optimized design.
All true. You may notice that there are some bands of pixels that are brighter than others. We haven't figured that out exactly yet, but the leading thought is that it is differences in manufacturing batches of pixels. Same manufacturer. The smaller one we're working on now will be 18" diameter, so just about beach ball size. Not sure of the final cost to build the small one yet, but it'll be less than $1000.
@@DrZzs I'm certain the bands brightness difference will be found in your controller. Somehow. If manufacturing differences were the cause the bright and dim ones would be distributed evenly, not group up in bands. However, I don't know how you used the batches. Btw, what kind of LEDs are these? Haven't found any info in the description or on your page in parts excel sheeet.
I agree with you that they would be random throughout the sphere, but I think we build them with boxes in an order so it might be mfg defects, but we can't rule out the controller.
You mentioned approx *$10k cost* and 20k lights. Thank you for spending the time/money to save those of us wanting to do the same :) Can you explain the primary reason for using the _large pixel lights that require assembly,_ versus LED strips w/slide-on diffractors (to blend pixels a bit).
The main reason we used Pixels was availability and ease of repair. We thought the Pixel strip would hold it's shape and it pretty much did. I don't think I would do it again with Pixels. The next version we're building will be made with strips. After that's done I'll be able to say for sure which one is better. There are also some Chinese vendors that sell some flexible panel versions. We're looking into getting one of those to test out as well.
@@DrZzs - Thank you for the explanation. I looked into the Chinese vendors for the flexible panels for another project pre-COVID and it was horribly expensive versus LED strips. I suspect you've already dealt with this, but for the benefit of others -- when quoting on Alib*, the price they list is rarely the actual price quoted. Plus the issues w/tariffs, freight forwarder add-ons at dest, etc.
That's amazing, can't wait for the smaller version to build one myself. Maybe a half-sphere would be an option too? Mine would face a wall, and it would be cool to put it up snug against the wall to get the stray light on the wall from the half-sphere. I hope you get what I mean, it would be easier to get normal videos for it, too.
For the smaller version do you want to mount it to the wall? So you would only see the front half? I've been desiging it so that the halves come together with a top and a bottom. -Grzzs
Either mounting it to a wall or just put it up against the wall, therefore a version where the split is vertical would be awesome. It would involve some cables on the rear-side instead of more strips/pixels to connect them up in serial, but I don't mind that. @@DrZzs
cool idea! I think I can make it so that you could have a half dome vertical without too much work. I'll get the top/bottom design completed first then the front/back one. -Grzzs
This is absolutely fantastic! I am a technical director at 5 local schools in NJ and we are doing Cinderella at one of the HS. I had a vision for a self contained 16 to 20" sphere that could be wire-flown over the audience. I saw in the video that you were working on smaller 3D printed versions. Did you go further with that and if so could you point me towards where I may purchase STL files? Thank you! Again, fantastic work!!
Thank you so much! I am super glad that you liked it! It is even cooler in person. Yes. The plastic straps will warp over time and in the heat, but the cost of al vs plastic. Plastic will win every time. Now that we have proven out V1 and the looks of it. We are looking into several different designs for V2...3...4, etc. We have a lot planned. If you enjoyed this please check out our hippo video.
Cost vs longevity.. all the hard work that went into it vs how long will it last? It's a brilliant idea! I noticed it flickering too, not sure if it was the frame rate of the recording or if it is visible in person perhaps distributing the power load or adding extra power supplies or using the last couple data channels over a shorter distance would improve the performance. Love the idea. It would be cool to try making one that lasts a while outside and or even modular so it could be taken apart and stored now that you know the concept works this could be a real marketable product everyone would want these in their yard👍👍❤️
It actually wasn't all that bad. We just had to make sure that everything was labeled correctly. Then we just started with pixel 1 at the top and went clockwise down the sphere.
To elaborate on this more .. there is a model to represent the sphere that was a custom made model . Not a easy process in 3d . It was done outside of xlights . But another problem we had is cool we had a 3d model but xlights don't render 3d .. so we had to create a shadow model to match the spacing of the sphere. Also took some time to figure out because a straight matrix didn't match So the shadow model is also a complex shadow custom model
Thanks for watching!! Yes we are working on a smaller one, however, it is still pretty large for a desk. It's going to be ~20 diameter and a complete sphere. It would be pretty much the only thing you could have on your desk. Looks really nice and a video will be coming out soon.
I've really struggled to find a way to diffuse it easily. A white sheet is a great idea, but how to I get it to wrap around the sphere without creases and seems. Also in order for diffusers to work well there needs to be some distance between the led and the sheet. A lot of questions still to be answered! Thanks for the comments and watching the video!
No. You’d have a lot of extra screen at the top and bottom. You’d have to fold it in or cut it off. I wouldn’t expect a screen to survive such dissection.
Yes, but with a catch. We can't really add more resolution to this sphere since the leds don't have much clearance between each other on the smaller rings. It tends to get really tight back there. We are working on some higher resolution stuff!
We are working on a smaller version but still nothing as small as a handheld one. The next one is about desk sized, if you want your entire desk filled up.
Bro, coolest thing I've ever seen. Very good work, absolutely. And since this thing is only 8ft wide, I would try and see how you can rent this out to parties, proms at schools, weddings, something. You can have text scrolling, go in beat with music if it sat in the center of a floor (barriers around it of course). Man, so many ideas with this. I would suggest speakers inside the sphere. And have them play like Dolby depending on what's on that side of the sphere.. That would be cool.
We are working on some pretty cool ideas with the sphere. We are working towards a sphere that has everything located in it. If you are interested in renting it out. Let me know! Ha!
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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 📺 The video discusses the creation of a massive LED sphere in Las Vegas.
00:27 🌐 The team decided on an 8ft diameter for their sphere and plans for a smaller 3D printable version.
01:10 🎮 They designed the sphere to have consistent pixel resolution at the top and bottom as well as the middle.
02:05 🪚 The frame was constructed with five horizontal rings, 18 vertical ribs, and 77 rings of pixels.
02:48 💡 The team painstakingly added 20,000 pixels to the sphere using 1-inch spaced pixel strap.
04:13 ⚙️ They used a Kulp 32 controller with 29 data outputs and 700 LEDs per channel to control the sphere's lighting effects.
05:11 🔌 The sphere is powered by two 12-volt 100-amp power supplies and is controlled via an ethernet connection.
06:07 🎨 X lights software is used for creating designs and sequences for the LED sphere.
07:02 💥 The video showcases the LED sphere in action with various impressive lighting effects.
10:45 🙌 The video ends with a thank you to the audience for watching.
Made with HARPA AI
Awesome addition thank you for adding this info and first time here but love this site
Welcome and thanks for stopping by! If you are interested please join our discord server. Link in the description.
Thanks for making this!
@@DrZzs perfect I will do that thanks 👍
You should double the LEDs and do the inside as well..
V.2 should include a door and recreate the u2 concert..
This is by far one of the greatest LED DIY projects I've ever followed to date. The effort is just crazy but super worth it. Thanks so much for sharing with the world! ❤
Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Need to add Chain Chomp from Mario Bros.!!! That would be perfect!
That's a new idea I haven't heard yet, and YES that would be awesome!
It’s black…???
Yes but he has sharp white teeth and his mouth never closes plus he has big white eyes.
pacman!
Ive never seen any self made project more impressive than this. I could watch this for hours. Kudos. 👏 👏 👏
Ooooh the party potential, you just need a 200 foot tower now to freak out your neighbours with the big flaming eye of Sauron on the top.
I see you caught the vision!
Awsome proyect congrats
Thanks!
This is fantastic, I gotta respect the sheer amount of work and time spent on this project...I love my ws2812b's i just don't get the time to do things on this scale....plus power is very expensive in the UK right now...huge respect to you and all who helped.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
The coolest family project ever! Just awsome
Thank you so much!
What an awesome project..... and to get your family involved is even better. Thanks for not only doing this, but making the video and sharing it. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was there 2 weeks ago, and saw it in person for the first time. Attended the U2 concert this week and took some close-up of their "pixels". Each pixel contains 40-something smaller lights. It's pretty impressive.
I can't wait to see the MSG Sphere in person. Thanks for watching!
@@DrZzs The Postcard from Earth movie shows off the features of the inside, 4D features, really impressive. The concert was really intimate with the huge screen. And the outside is fun with the animations day round.
Your sphere was fun too, came out really nice. Did this need a lot of power injection, or was that not needed with the 29 connections to the controller?
It would be awesome if you could put a light diffuser on top of the sphere to blend the pixels. Any feasible solutions to that?
¡Gracias!,🎉👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍾🥂
thank you!
total cost for this project???
1 million dollars
Out of curiosity how much did this cost? Real nice job!
We estimate that it costs about 10K. We traded services and such so our cost was much cheaper.
Gentleman, thanks for the idea, links and excellent explanation of each step. I'm geographically lucky, and due to my former employment, connected to both Daktronics and Digikey. Also, Daktronics' manufacturing facility for billboards is about 5 miles from my house. As billboards are made from square, approximately 200 millimeter panels, mine wouldn't be perfectly round, and made from decommissioned parts. I've inquired as to what they have in extremely inexpensive parts, I'm hoping for panels with 5-millimeter led spacing, and plan to start with one about half the size of yours. I've decided to use Daktronics components as I have worked on their boards since the mid 1980's when the pixels where micro incandescent lamps behind round RGB caps, and as I worked my up the corporate ladder in my former industry, I eventually ended up purchasing products from them. Hopefully I can convince the local tech college to help with the design and welding of the repurposed aluminum from the billboard.
What do you think of putting the object on a pedestal? this way a hatch could be paced on the bottom for access. Unfortunately going this route will mean dealing with proprietary software, but my former technical crew are excellent at creating mods for Daktronics control modules (and they work for beer). I'll also have issues dealing with heat dissipation which will greatly increase my power consumption.
Thanks again for the great idea, and great video! I have no idea why RUclips's algorithm suggested your video this morning, but I'm glad it did.
Then of course I have to convince my wife...
Oh man! I am excited to see if you can convince your wife! Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness then ask for permission. HA! Please join the discord server (link in the description). I would love to see the progress of your project! I'd also like to chat with you some more about the billboard stuff!
Brilliant. And to think I was so proud of myself for putting my first 2 led strips up yesterday 😂 need to up my game now👍🏻
As you should be! It starts with a couple of LEDs and grows into this if you aren't careful! Ha!
@@DrZzs And it’s all your fault😂
Glad I could help! 😜
now that is cool. will you eventually sell/share the cnc plans to get the ring parts cut ?
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for commenting!
It looks awesome. You said 20K pixels right? Numbers go up fast as you need to wrap all those around a sphere. When you look it at any angle what sort of resolution do you see?
yep 20k. If you look down from above it doesn't look as good. The resolution really isn't great. v2 and v3 will be higher resolution!
@@DrZzs But if you look from the side, I assume you can see about 130-140 pixels around the equator and 120ish lines?
Yes. You are probably right about the amount of pixels you could see looking at it straight on. The best videos are the ones with high contrast. Like the pumpkin faces etc.
It's got higher definition than most AliX computer monitors 😂 I'm a bit late to the party, but I LOVE this!
Thats a cool project imagine with even a denser array how much details you can get.
i wonder if it would be possible to increase the pixel density by using smaller smd leds tighter packed.
Yes, absolutely. It's just a matter of cost. We are planning on some higher resolution versions.
That's really cool, any power injection added to the pixels strips length?
Man imagine the added difficulty of this without modern tools, what we have access to now is mindblowing really
This is an incredible undertaking. I’ve been researching for spherical wire frames that I can wrap with pixels somehow. Strips may work but the fixed led spacing seems to make it difficult to align the layers. I’m definitely inspired by your project. Thanks!
I'm glad you were inspired by it! That is why we make the things we do. This was quite the undertaking! Aligning the layers is next level stuff. You can't have them completely aligned because of the pitch of the leds and the diameter of the ring just won't line up every layer. You could align a section in front of it, but then it will vary as you move from the center. Once you have thousand of LEDs on at a time that alignment is not so important in my opinion.
You should join our discord channel. Lots of cool stuff happening there.
Incredible job guys.
Thanks!
Incredible
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Massive ! Respect and cheers from Hamburg, GER
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the video!
Some of the effects look much better than the others, the end result is very good.. Need some snow globes and christmas ornament style animations, and probably more eyeballs and pumpkins for halloween.
Size, materials and power seem to be a challenge on this one.. Way out of my budget for the big one built here for sure but I wonder about having a bunch of basket ball or beach ball size ones along my driveway with animated pumpkins, eyes etc.. I can't wait to see the more optimized design.
All true. You may notice that there are some bands of pixels that are brighter than others. We haven't figured that out exactly yet, but the leading thought is that it is differences in manufacturing batches of pixels. Same manufacturer. The smaller one we're working on now will be 18" diameter, so just about beach ball size. Not sure of the final cost to build the small one yet, but it'll be less than $1000.
We've been looking forward to this video, Justin! Great job.
Thank you so much!
@@DrZzs I'm certain the bands brightness difference will be found in your controller. Somehow. If manufacturing differences were the cause the bright and dim ones would be distributed evenly, not group up in bands. However, I don't know how you used the batches.
Btw, what kind of LEDs are these? Haven't found any info in the description or on your page in parts excel sheeet.
I agree with you that they would be random throughout the sphere, but I think we build them with boxes in an order so it might be mfg defects, but we can't rule out the controller.
That was seriously awesome
Nice job, I'm wondering if NeoPrism x led strips would be a step up?
You mentioned approx *$10k cost* and 20k lights. Thank you for spending the time/money to save those of us wanting to do the same :)
Can you explain the primary reason for using the _large pixel lights that require assembly,_ versus LED strips w/slide-on diffractors (to blend pixels a bit).
The main reason we used Pixels was availability and ease of repair. We thought the Pixel strip would hold it's shape and it pretty much did. I don't think I would do it again with Pixels. The next version we're building will be made with strips. After that's done I'll be able to say for sure which one is better.
There are also some Chinese vendors that sell some flexible panel versions. We're looking into getting one of those to test out as well.
@@DrZzs - Thank you for the explanation.
I looked into the Chinese vendors for the flexible panels for another project pre-COVID and it was horribly expensive versus LED strips.
I suspect you've already dealt with this, but for the benefit of others -- when quoting on Alib*, the price they list is rarely the actual price quoted. Plus the issues w/tariffs, freight forwarder add-ons at dest, etc.
Yes! It is a disaster.
ya, a sphere that started at "$900" becomes $3200 by the time it actually arrives at your door.
That's amazing, can't wait for the smaller version to build one myself. Maybe a half-sphere would be an option too? Mine would face a wall, and it would be cool to put it up snug against the wall to get the stray light on the wall from the half-sphere. I hope you get what I mean, it would be easier to get normal videos for it, too.
For the smaller version do you want to mount it to the wall? So you would only see the front half? I've been desiging it so that the halves come together with a top and a bottom.
-Grzzs
Either mounting it to a wall or just put it up against the wall, therefore a version where the split is vertical would be awesome. It would involve some cables on the rear-side instead of more strips/pixels to connect them up in serial, but I don't mind that. @@DrZzs
@@damustermann Halve domes on the wall would make for some great EYES!
cool idea! I think I can make it so that you could have a half dome vertical without too much work. I'll get the top/bottom design completed first then the front/back one.
-Grzzs
Amazing, I'm looking forward to it, and I will build one with proof when everything is ready! Thanks in advance! @@DrZzs
this is the sickest thing ive seen a youtuber done. Like probably not technically but like the thing that i most actually want to have
Thanks! I really appreciate that!
Impressive project!
Thank you so much and thanks for the comment!
nah but the electricity bills to keep this running bro is an amazing person 😭😭😭😭💝💝💓💓💗💗💖💖💌💌
Just commenting for the algorithm…
Great work!
We appreciate each and everyone! We read all the comments and respond to almost all of them!
I wonder if 3d printing hexagons and glueing it all up would have the same effect versus wrapping.
that's a good idea. We might have to try something like that.
Thanks!
Awesome work! My pixel pushing fingers ache for you. Very cool to see that this was all done with xlights and a stock controller.
Couldn't have done it without the expertise of the pixelheads!!!
Looks great guys! Can smaller LED's be used for better resolution?
Yes, absolutely. It's just a matter of cost. We are planning on some higher resolution versions.
Smaller 3D printed DIY version sounds like a lot of fun!
How far away do you need to be so the pixels blend?
That's just crazy, DrZzs!!
Thanks man. It sure is!
what was used to display and drive the LED's did this use quinled?
Kulp 32. You can find it by searching for that or Kulp lights!
This is awesome 👌
thanks!
DUDE! I don't comment on a lot of videos, but this is an epic creation! Awesome job!
I sincerly appreciate this comment! Thank you for going out of your way to let me know that you liked it!
@DrZzs Thanks for taking the time to respond. You are definitely going to be going places with projects like this!
That's the plan!
This is incredible!
Thanks! It is awesome. We're working on ways to make it better and a couple other designs. Stay tuned.
This is crazy!
Looks super. Thanks for sharing. 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for watching!
Oh man! Your neighbors will love it! 🤣🤣
We try not to annoy them too much.
Commenting to feed the YT algorithm. Awesome Build! looking forward to V2.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting to appease the AI overlord!
Thats so sick dude! Amazing job
Thanks! This has started something extra awesome. We're going to make more/better versions.
@@DrZzsi cant wait! Im definitely gonna try and create one
Awesome! Please post your progress in our discord server!
@@DrZzs alright!
this is the best thing i have ever seen!
Wow! That's quite the compliment. Thanks! Thank you for watching. If you want to support us patreon is a great way to do so.
Dude, that would make a dope snow globe in the yard for Xmas.
It's on the list of things to try.
you should get a screen on top or like a layer so its more smooth, but it looks fantastic
Love it! Nice work
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing, love it! 😂
Thanks 😆
AWESOME AND AMAZING!!! 👏 👌 👍
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great work!
Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Sick ... great video of the process
Thanks! Thanks for watching!
Man, need to sell that!!! Streamline that!!! A lot of people would get that for the holidays
We are working on a smaller one that is more streamlined. Assembly process, as it currently is designed, isn't as streamlined as it needs to be.
Wow, great job!
Thank you! Cheers!
This is absolutely fantastic! I am a technical director at 5 local schools in NJ and we are doing Cinderella at one of the HS. I had a vision for a self contained 16 to 20" sphere that could be wire-flown over the audience. I saw in the video that you were working on smaller 3D printed versions. Did you go further with that and if so could you point me towards where I may purchase STL files?
Thank you! Again, fantastic work!!
You can check out our patreon account for purchasing the smaller version stl files. Also check out the smaller version video!
@@DrZzs is that the join option on RUclips is is there a separate link for patreon?
Pretty fun..pretty cool..well done.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Congrats, inspirational. Thanks for the tutorial :)
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Awesome job!!
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Wow, that’s awesome, I love the colourful videos, I’d bet it’ll be great for Halloween and Christmas displays. Well done ❤👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much 😊
Awesome job! Wow!
Thank you so much and thanks for watching and commenting!
This is rad! Well done!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Just brilliant!
Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
That's so cool, That black plastic strap will warp with the heat I would consider aluminum strap
Thank you so much! I am super glad that you liked it! It is even cooler in person. Yes. The plastic straps will warp over time and in the heat, but the cost of al vs plastic. Plastic will win every time. Now that we have proven out V1 and the looks of it. We are looking into several different designs for V2...3...4, etc. We have a lot planned. If you enjoyed this please check out our hippo video.
Cost vs longevity.. all the hard work that went into it vs how long will it last? It's a brilliant idea! I noticed it flickering too, not sure if it was the frame rate of the recording or if it is visible in person perhaps distributing the power load or adding extra power supplies or using the last couple data channels over a shorter distance would improve the performance. Love the idea. It would be cool to try making one that lasts a while outside and or even modular so it could be taken apart and stored now that you know the concept works this could be a real marketable product everyone would want these in their yard👍👍❤️
That home Vegas shere is absolutely amazing.
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching!
*sphere
How did you get the addressing right? I mean, how does xLights know which pixel is placed where to map out the images on it? Cheers
It actually wasn't all that bad. We just had to make sure that everything was labeled correctly. Then we just started with pixel 1 at the top and went clockwise down the sphere.
To elaborate on this more .. there is a model to represent the sphere that was a custom made model . Not a easy process in 3d . It was done outside of xlights . But another problem we had is cool we had a 3d model but xlights don't render 3d .. so we had to create a shadow model to match the spacing of the sphere. Also took some time to figure out because a straight matrix didn't match
So the shadow model is also a complex shadow custom model
Now make it even smaller so i can put one on my desk
Thanks for watching!! Yes we are working on a smaller one, however, it is still pretty large for a desk. It's going to be ~20 diameter and a complete sphere. It would be pretty much the only thing you could have on your desk. Looks really nice and a video will be coming out soon.
thats awesome! I need this! thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Great job!
Thank you!
This is awesome 😎👍 I want to make one but smaller for my table in my bedroom
What size would work for your table in your bedroom? We are currently working on a 50cm (~20in) one.
Mad respect.
Love it! Thanks! Glad to see you here!
I feel like an outer diffuser layer might improve the result even further. :)
Reminds me about Leds Party, winner of Real wild demo compo at assembly summer 2011. It was spinning display style globe.
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying it is one of those POV devices, but in a sphere shape? That would be cool!
What’s the cost breakdown on this? It’s awesome.
Thank you so much! We traded a lot of services so the cost of ours isn't likely what someone else would pay. We estimate it would cost about 10K.
Awesome!
Make it fly!!!!! That would be EPIC!!
Seriously! We could do that. It's just a matter of time and money!
Neat I feel like it needs a diffusor though. Maybe something simple as a while sheet or something.
I've really struggled to find a way to diffuse it easily. A white sheet is a great idea, but how to I get it to wrap around the sphere without creases and seems. Also in order for diffusers to work well there needs to be some distance between the led and the sheet. A lot of questions still to be answered! Thanks for the comments and watching the video!
Amazing❤❤❤
what are the last 2 songs you used?
Such a cool project
Thanks Turtle! You are the best! Thanks for all the help!
first demo for some reason, the sounds takes me back to Warcraft II or III for some reason haha.
Question? Could you just dismantle a lcd tv or use oled and rap it around?
No. You’d have a lot of extra screen at the top and bottom. You’d have to fold it in or cut it off. I wouldn’t expect a screen to survive such dissection.
Wasn't music o. The Halloween display and the fire eye. The music is from Millinois lords strategy game?
Thanks. I can't remember now where exactly the music is from. Royalty free RUclips list I think.
next up infinity mirror sphere! or a sphere withing a sphere within a sphere for that ultimate 3D effect. 🤣
Boooom! My brain just exploded!
Very Cool!!!
Thank you so much!
Insane! Wow!
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Is increasing resolution as easy as just adding more leds?
Yes, but with a catch. We can't really add more resolution to this sphere since the leds don't have much clearance between each other on the smaller rings. It tends to get really tight back there. We are working on some higher resolution stuff!
That's an amazing build. You guys did a great job. Thanks for posting.
Can i ask what the cost was.
The cost is mostly in the LED's. We estimate the cost to be around 10K.
@@DrZzs well, you all did great. Do you do these things professionally?
Since we built this we have been asked to build some so YES. We build them professionally.
@@DrZzs that's wonderful.
I wish you all the best. Thanks again.
You should do a livestream and let the viewers put whatever they want on the sphere
That is an aboslute BRILLIANT idea! We will have to do that.
This was so cool! I would love to make handheld spheres using a raspberry pi or something
We are working on a smaller version but still nothing as small as a handheld one. The next one is about desk sized, if you want your entire desk filled up.
That was fun! Just an idea: why not put a giant balloon inside that pushes the led-bands outside?
Bro, coolest thing I've ever seen. Very good work, absolutely.
And since this thing is only 8ft wide, I would try and see how you can rent this out to parties, proms at schools, weddings, something. You can have text scrolling, go in beat with music if it sat in the center of a floor (barriers around it of course). Man, so many ideas with this.
I would suggest speakers inside the sphere. And have them play like Dolby depending on what's on that side of the sphere.. That would be cool.
We are working on some pretty cool ideas with the sphere. We are working towards a sphere that has everything located in it.
If you are interested in renting it out. Let me know! Ha!
Absolutely amazing,... nice so nice .LED fan from Spain...
May look at miniLEDs for a 30/40cm diameter one
Yeah a smaller one should be managable. We are working on the smaller one right now. Just waiting for parts to finish it up.