Versatile PCB building was, for a really very long time, the unique realm of mass produced client items. LCD drivers might be built-in into the versatile connectors on a big LCD panel, however provided that you have been making a number of hundred thousand models. However instances have modified, and now hobbyists have entry to many various PCB building strategies, together with aluminum, flex PCB, even Teflon and Rogers PCBs! With these strategies now generally accessible, we’re beginning to see some actually cool 3D flex PCB artwork, like the WovenLux sphere.
Produced from 6 strips of flex PCB materials, every with 10 WS2812 RGB LEDs, the WovenLux will not be solely fairly as a result of it lights up, however as a result of it’s such a novel 3D construction that holds itself along with solely minimal soldering required. The LEDs can face inward or outward, with the inward choice proven above. On the again of the strips, you possibly can faintly learn “Incipit vita nova,” as famously uttered by Dante upon assembly Beatrice and changing into immediately enamoured together with her – “A brand new life begins.”
That is the proper ornament to have in your lab or hackerspace, and even simply in a calming space of your house – maybe in a studying nook, the place you possibly can get pleasure from Vita Nuova whereas stress-free within the soothing gentle of the WovenLux. Or make one and present it to a fellow hacker! Maybe to your very personal Beatrice?
