We Built a Replica of the Las Vegas MSG Sphere in our Backyard!
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
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00:00 Introduction
00:20 Deciding on Size
00:42 The Problem with Spherical Displays
01:16 Frame Design and Build
02:33 Pushing Pixels into Strap
03:31 Wrapping Pixels around the Frame
04:28 Power Use
04:49 Controller and Enclosure
06:01 Pixelheads and xLights
06:55 Demo Time! 
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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.
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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!
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!
Ive never seen any self made project more impressive than this. I could watch this for hours. Kudos. 👏 👏 👏
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!
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!
Incredible job guys.
Thanks!
Looks super. Thanks for sharing. 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for watching!
Awsome proyect congrats
Thanks!
Just brilliant!
Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Our pleasure!
Awesome job! Wow!
Thank you so much and thanks for watching and commenting!
Impressive project!
Thank you so much and thanks for the comment!
This is incredible!
Thanks! It is awesome. We're working on ways to make it better and a couple other designs. Stay tuned.
Great work!
Thank you! Thanks for watching and commenting!
That was seriously awesome
Great job!
Thank you!
Love it! Nice work
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow, great job!
Thank you! 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.
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?
Awesome job!!
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This is awesome 👌
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!
Congrats, inspirational. Thanks for the tutorial :)
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
That's just crazy, DrZzs!!
Thanks man. It sure is!
Sick ... great video of the process
Thanks! Thanks for watching!
Love everything you do mate! 👍
Thank you! Cheers! Thanks for watching!
Thats a cool project imagine with even a denser array how much details you can get.
This is rad! Well done!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
thats awesome! I need this! thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Mad respect.
Love it! Thanks! Glad to see you here!
AWESOME AND AMAZING!!! 👏 👌 👍
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Amazing❤❤❤
Pretty darn cool.
Thank you and thank you for watching!
Insane! Wow!
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This is amazing
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Very Cool!!!
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Really cool. good job
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This is crazy!
Amazing, love it! 😂
Thanks 😆
Pretty fun..pretty cool..well done.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
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 😊
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! 😜
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.
Oh man! Your neighbors will love it! 🤣🤣
We try not to annoy them too much.
great video
Thank you so much! @alixsprallix I am glad you enjoyed it!
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!!!
Just commenting for the algorithm…
Great work!
We appreciate each and everyone! We read all the comments and respond to almost all of them!
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.
Such a cool project
Thanks Turtle! You are the best! Thanks for all the help!
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!
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!
Make it fly!!!!! That would be EPIC!!
Seriously! We could do that. It's just a matter of time and money!
Fabulous
That home Vegas shere is absolutely amazing.
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching!
*sphere
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!
wow amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
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.
That's really cool, any power injection added to the pixels strips length?
over the top!
thanks! it is pretty wild.
This is impressive
Thanks! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Very cool
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching!
Now I have to learn xlights 🙂@@DrZzs
It's not so bad. At first I didn't want to learn it either.
That was fun! Just an idea: why not put a giant balloon inside that pushes the led-bands outside?
Smaller 3D printed DIY version sounds like a lot of fun!
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!
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!
Dude, that would make a dope snow globe in the yard for Xmas.
It's on the list of things to try.
This is gonna be perfect for holloween!!!!
Yes! That is the thought! Thanks for watching.
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.
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.
very kool
Thanks so much! Thanks for watching!
!(: PRETTY COOL, THANKS ;)!
How far away do you need to be so the pixels blend?
that's .... lit
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching!
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.
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.
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!
¡Gracias!,🎉👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍾🥂
thank you!
This is awesome 😎👍 I want one but smaller for my bedroom
In process!!!! However the one we are working on is still questionable on whether it fits, well, in a room. It's a diameter of 50cm (~20in).
first demo for some reason, the sounds takes me back to Warcraft II or III for some reason haha.
If you want to make it so that it's not floppy between your ribs. Go buy enough yards of polyester fleece to wrap the entire structure before putting on your strands it's up to you how you put it on stapling each longitude section together.
Once that is done and the fabric is tight, it's up to you how you do it but you can even get a cheap automobile spray gun, drill out the nozzle to make it capable of being used with thick material, then get yourself some fiberglass resin and hardener, mix a pot, fill your gun and shoot. Keep going until you're done I'm going to guess you're going to need probably around 3-5 gallons.
Pedicure for 24 hours and then go ahead and start putting your lights on all of your indents for your levels should be still there and straight providing you did your attention and stapling correctly.
I really enjoyed seeing this I can't wait to see 2.0 😁👍
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!
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👍👍❤️
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.
Never knew the tower of Mordor was so big 😮
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.
Are you going to do an updated video with it with snow globe scenes for Christmas? Very cool btw!
Yes we have a Halloween show that is out. We will also be makeing a Christmas show!
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.
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.
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!
Now use industrial shrink wrap to seal it all in and diffuse the light
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.
Top job Doc !!! What a shit ton of work
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
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!
what are the last 2 songs you used?
omg I want one for my backyard.... its amazing... I live in Vegas
Ha! There will be plans coming out!