3D printed LED sphere
By Ben Everard. Posted
This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
In our interview with Debra Ansell, on page 50 of the latest issue, we briefly discuss some of the challenges of making an LED sphere. Debra solved this by arranging surface-mount LEDs on a flat plane, then diffusing the light through curved 3D-printed parts. Tom Verbeure has gone down a different route with this creation, using larger through-hole components placed into a 20-segment, 3D-printed sphere. There’s always more than one way to do it, and no one way is better than any other, as this build shows.
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Ben is the Editor of HackSpace magazine. When not wrangling words, he enjoys cycling, gardening, and attempting to identify wild mushrooms.
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