Make your own 10x10 LED Matrix
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Home Improvement Store:
4mm beech plywood
2.5mm opal acrylic glass
stiff 1.5mm^2 wire
flexible 0.75mm^2 wire
In this project I will show you how to combine commonly available WS2812B RGB LEDs with an Arduino Nano in order to create a colorful 10x10 LED Matrix.
Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats - Наука та технологія
zentimeters
centimeters
senttiä
I always measure the inner pieces with zentimeters
I heard that too...
Zen....... timeters
The more I watch you videos the more I understand how it's important to have a proper tools to create such beautiful things
(As a lazy man, I'd really want to make these in a grid size that is exactly matched to the spacing of the led strip. Holy reduction in soldering, batman!)
Very easy, just buy the stripe with the fewer LEDs/metre and thats it.
why not just use pre-wired led strings
I had the same thought 30 LEDs/m would probably work fine with just some solderings between different strips
Ya wow, I have no idea why he did so much extra work. Low density (addressable) led strip then cover with a grid like he did....same result
@@shiftyjesusfish right? It’s what I’ll be doing 😎
Nice looking display. I admire the amount of effort you put into building the matrix and its enclosure
Hey GreatScott! Your previous led matrix bar inspired me to make a similar project that will look very similar to this when its finished! Keep up the amazing work cuz you do some great projects for electronics beginners (such as myself)!
A tetris game on this matrix would be awesome
I thought the exact same thing as soon as the video started!
My professor made that and oh boy is it awesome.
@@Shaggyfauvorite how?
Arduino, bluetooth and a bit of brain magic
it could be turned into a looping animation.
There is no way i can make this.The amount of patience this man has is incredible.
i just finished my 8x8 grid of random blinking lights. this is labor intensice, respect brother
This is my favorite video/project you've done. I'll definitely be making one of these in the future. Great Job :)
Thanks
I still miss the "Lets get started" line in the intro :(
Now it's "Let's get started with the build" :) Almost the same
+michalpajor but it's still not the same D:
+KaienSander10 Everytime he says "let's get started!" it puts a grin on my face. This time it was not the same
Et's get zdarded.
KaienSander10
I found your UA-cam channel a few weeks ago , your work is great! I 'm studying industrial engineering and I love eletctricity and electronic . Furthermore, I come from Belgium , so watch videos in English is so good for my English , your accent is neutral and perfect understanding. Keep on going! :)
I've been watching your videos for a while now. Love what you do and the creativity. Your videos inspired me to go out buy a few things come home and build a portable phone charging box. Since the first version I'm already planning on adding a on board charger (had removable recharge able NIMH battery's), a volt meter, and a few others. Keep up the amazing creativity, cant wait to see it in the next video!
Idea: if the acrylic was raised slightly away from the underlying grid, allowing a little bit of light to escape through, the light bleed could mask the dark spots caused where the grid is touching the acrylic. The distance between the grid and the acrylic could be adjusted so that a balance is found where the light bleeds enough to cover the gap between "pixels", but not so much that it bleeds significantly into the next pixel over.
good explanation, thank you, Saludos amigo.
Wow, that is beautiful. I did a small solder job tonight after not soldering for the best part of 20 years and I think I did well. Wouldn't it be beautiful if there was 100 of these, all on one wall in a house! Imagine that in a games room, or a room with a nice stereo.. Or better still, under the floor with a clear Perspex floor omg that would be amazing. So it's settled. When I'm super rich, I'm having LED matrix floors. Sweet project man, very very cool.
you added extra effort to the video .... salute to you. !!
keep making videos scott.
3:33 my inner perfectionist is happy 😍
love how you pronounce things like "zentimeter"!
awesome build! I never thought of using the foam board to make the square shapes.. brilliant and simple :) I've been mulling somethig like this over for awhile. Thanks for the video!
Awesome video Scott! I literally was just researching this exact project last night for a wall mounted spectrum analyzer to put above my computer monitors. :D
Good job, but what about the programming side? Didn't you mention something at the beginning about showing us how easy it is to use? If not, what did you use to program the light patterns featured in this video?
I think it's the same software used in his video of a large scale one
FastLED. I think he shows how to use it in the large scale LED matrix video..
He used the arduino IDE(whatever it's called) with a library for the LEDs. There is a download on instructables.
my next projet!!! xD cheers
OMG, your work is an inspiration to me. I am 14 years old and I want to get into computer programming and electrical engineering. All I have to say is stay creative!
This is Electronics.
It's not electrical engineering or computer science.
I'm working on a similar project at the moment using nodemcu, allowing you to switch between patterns by curling a URL. This looks great and has inspired me more!
haha, I made one of these out of wood and RGB LED strips for my High School Final Project it was 13x13 leds and a LOT more big and heavy. Nice video man btw
I was making a desk using frosted glass and a matrix like this underneath, using wood as the dividing material and I ran into that weight issue, too.
sounds cool. did you finish it?
I finished the structural portion and dividers of the top and wiring up the LED matrix, but I moved from Germany back to the US and still have the rest of the portion on hold while I get settled in. SMD LEDs were not the way to go and took way too long to wire up.
Try to Build 1920x1080 LED screen
Edit after 2 yrs:
Thx for likes!
oof
it would need like 300kw
1.21 Gigawatts to be exact.
@@69Accord69 When a typical screen is just tens of watts...
@@zUltraXO Back to the future... nothing?...
Yess, I was going to make one of these this summer. You're the best! Thanks for the vid
i started my led matrix project today, right on time!
Hey Scott, you covered the basic (passive) components in your videos, but will we see tutorials with active components i.e. (photo)transistors?
Soon
Nice
does it work with arduino uno
?
okay,
@@sem8776 I'm aware it's been 6yrs since you asked this, but yes it should work.
"afterwards i drilled 400 holes" fml, xD
thanks for the great work you put in ur videos!
nervenjere i work at my led matrix with 1152 holes xD 24x12 led matrix if you want i could make a video
Scott, this was an awesome video! Cool matrix!
wow. tons of ellbow grease. i love the led projects.
thabk you，Scott.
You always surprise me with a nice idea. Do you still have many of them in to do list?
Yes, too many.
Now make it run pong :D
Omg.
Pong? On a 100 Pixel matrix?
Ja... neee... is klar!
+Dirk Mader oder tetris =)
yesssss
Funny, I was thinking Tetris!
There is a really nice startup that creates these cubes aswell, but theirs can do a lot of really cool stuff, like showing notifications and stuff, add that, would be awesome.
Great video scott. Thanks for slowing down a bit with the explanation. Much more clear now
Do you have a Video explaining the software part?
I might do a video on how to create a simple game with such a matrix.
GreatScott! Nice.
Could you tell me how to do animations as shown in a nutshell?
Nicolai Weitkemper
Visit the FastLED website. There are plenty of information.
+GreatScott!
Hi Scott,
whenever i See at my Phone New Form great scott, Nothing is more important then watching your Video
great Job 👍
Steve
+Stefan Bramel me too ;) greatscoot is the only channel that i have notifications turned on ;)
how much leds can you connect on the arduino, I'm planning to do 240 leds. Is that possible?
Yes
long story short :D ... After a quick test i can say that the connection of up to 65 LEDs is no big problem. But you have to take care of how bright you want them to be and which color!!
You can do any amount of LEDs(well not really, but a lot) it's the power supply that needs to be beefier the more LEDs you have, not the arduino which is just data.
LucasMoviesmaker yes
I don't think you can use an Arduino Uno for that many LEDs. You'd have to get a higher Arduino model.
This is something i might try in the future although i have not done any electronics type stuff since i was in high school
Hey Scott! Me and my brother got a Raspberry pi 3 and made your matrix board, we did however make it a 10x20 grid and programmed it so we played tetris. Pretty cool huh? The most tedious process was the hole drilling by far. The wiring got to the point of just being a routine and we took turns making it. It was totaly worth it and we really like your projects. Good luck with future plans
If you use 30 LED/m LED strip, you can just drill holes in the backing material for the LEDs to show through and use strip for each row, only requiring soldering for the row connections. In your case, this would reduce the number of solder joints by a factor of 20.
You'd have much brighter and vastly more diffuse "pixels" if you'd used white separators.
killerdalek i was wondering about the same thing but do you really think it makes that much of difference?
I love how you took time to install each individual LED, but wouldn't it be easier if you kept the rows of 10 LEDs (instead of cutting single ones) and wired each row to the next one?
Or does that make the LEDs look too tightly spaced?
Exactly what I was thinking...
My thinking was that he might not be able to control them individually if they were attached together still.
THey're all connected the same in the row as they are in the matrix. He showed that when he did the test to control the spool of LEDs. ;
The spacing would have been a nightmare to deal with but the setup would have been easier. he wanted a specific grid size so he made it work with a little effort.
Just wow, Appreciated your overwhelming efforts man.
kudos✌
for the acrylic glass I usually just go through ally ways in my neighborhood until I find a flat screen TV. Plenty of useful parts, and a pretty big sheet of acrylic.
reading the comments makes me feel really stupid
How is it controlling 100 leds with so many colors, on just one single data pin?
Asynchronous Serial Data
xubor But there doesn't appear to be any for of microcontroller to read the Serial Data and convert it?
0:18, why would you "read" Serial Data? That makes no sense at all.
+Rasmus Tollund There is chip inside the LED itself. Lookup WS2812.
Daniel Astbury Ah okay, thanks a lot!
yeey new led matrix... they are awesome! I was looking for these LEDs like week ago.. It's great that you have made video of that.. ;)
really good project! the result is very pretty
Now convert that into a audio spectrum analyzer.
Good Idea, but how to do that ?
@@bharata101 idk but he knows anything
Akshay Patel add the proper code and a microphone. Actually pretty simple
Zentimeters : ^)
i currently make because of your video a led matrix with 24x12 :) will look awesome i hope, got the leds today but already drilled 1800 holes :D
It is so nice to see this kind of videos in milimeters!!!
Zentimeters!
genau :)
Are you from Germany?
Yes
+GreatScott! Ich wusste es! :) wo in Deutschland wohnst du?
+_who_cares_ klar die stehen dann vor jedem Haus im gesamten Bundesland....
+GreatScott! OMG Wien das raushört xD 😂
+Mats Pager wie*
I noticed that you are getting better in woodworking and I like it nice work :)
This is actually pretty cool! You should get one of those cheap 40 watts 400$ laser cutters. I got one a couple of month ago and it cuts 6mm MDF and Acrylic and stuff with a very good ventilation and a custom air support that you need to add yourself.
What are the expected costs?
Around 60-70$
+GreatScott! thx for the fastest response EVER 😅
+Nicolai Weitkemper next you have to make 1920x1080 size matrics
+CatKitty matrix
+CatKitty you mean +GreatScott! ?
Also, why slice them up? couldn't you achieve the same result by cutting 10 strips with 10 on them and connecting the strips data in to the next strips data out? ( And power of course)
claydioactive it'd be harder to isolate the LEDs into 'pixels' that way
That's what I was wondering as I watched this... using strips is a *LOT* easier. The only drawback to using strips is the LED per meter density is what sets the size of your 'pixels' as the spacing is preset... still, saves a *ton* of time and it really isn't hard to figure out... this seemed way overly complicated.
wouldn't it still get the pixel effect with strips if he just separated them using that foam matrix? seems like it could to me
You make it sound so easy!
Always a great project. I suggest to make the frame and also the divisions using MDF cutting by CNC laser. Thumb up👍
I want to Tetris on that shit
"zenitmeter" xD no hate
how bigger its possible making a led matrix with arduino nano?
You always have awesome little projects :) Keep it up! :D
diy launchpad pls
oh yes pls
YES
you didnt show the programming
I might do it in another video
please do
a real PRO instruction video - you should moderate a DIY show on the TV!
thx a lot
@1:22 interesting to see the ground from the external power supply shared with the ground on the Uno to provide the data pin from the Arduino with a common reference ground. I thought this would be more involved, eg MOSFETs to relay the data pin, but if this works then it gets over the hurdle of finding 43w+ to drive those LEDs.
Nochmal auf deutsch und mit mindestens 1080p60fps wäre besser, nech.
you are very demanding
@@finnthefrog4354
"you are very demanding"
Yes, I am, sometimes, but in a good way!
UA-cam damysticalone87
Hello.
How did you place the back wood panel before gluing it.
what was it resting on because it doesn't show in the video.
thanks
Great videos. Really liking the good video quality and clear steps. Learning tons of magical circuit things. :)
Great Scott!! That was awesome!
Hey Great Scott, love your videos! Question: Well I had an idea of creating such matrix, but by your thoughts would it be hard to attach this to a car amplifier and create like some kind of equalizer which projects music frequency on this board, and would it be hard to create programm in arduino?
I just finished my GCSE's and I have10 weeks to actually make all this stuff!
Your project is awesome, i love it!!
thank you scott for your fantastic video.
Thanks for great tutorial
PS: Why do you need acrylic glass? (can't u use normal one?)
wauw! this is amazing looking. your work is great and inspiring! thanks. im gonna try this one to.
Great stuff, something I wanna try to do.
*But a question:* _Why (in some of such Tutorials) none using a _*_white_*_ layer of the "walls"?_
The black (or brown, as in one with a cardboard was shown) swallow a lot of the light ... and "yes sure, the wall must blocking the light to the neighbours" ... but sone white paint or any other way ...?
Hello i need help, if i load a picture on the matrix it works well but
the drawing mode creates ziczac patterns insteed of lines??
Just finished my own one, looks awesome :D.
Hey great Scott
I tried making the matrix but have trouble connecting the LEDs together
Only the first LED would light up
Any suggestions what I can do to fix this
Can this work with an arduino 1 or ATMega 1284?
so if you just use the led strip and cut strips the lengte of the of the box could you make the same then?
If one of this led just have 17 mA how bright will it be ?
(I'm making a 15x15 led matrice so 4000 mA / 225 = 17 mA)
I just ordered the parts... finally time for me to take a plunge into the arduino. I'v been fearing that device for to long >:)
Fabulously done man
I’m new to Arduino, this really excited me!
Amm if i want to use the WS128b led as a normal led strip light but to control it with Arduino and some button to change the animation
dc barrel has 3 pins, how to connect to nano? Cant see it clearly in the video or diagram
You make it simple....great work.
Would it be possible to scale this up by adding more LEDs in parallel? So two/four LEDs in each segment running off of one control signal?
Nice precision work!
is the adafruit library always needed? I tried using basic digitalWrite code and it wasn't able to light up the pixels.
I think I'm gonna attempt this, but with a 32 LEDs/m strip, so I don't have to solder that much. got any suggestions/ tips?
GreatScott! Where is the second animation please say, or put link to it! If you dont have then yust ansver and say that
sorry for this question but can i use the raspberry pi 3 as a microcontroller? and if yes is an standard linux like Ubuntu or Mint okay or do i need a special version? ty for your answer
I'm having trouble with my led matrix,when using the LedMatrixControl only 2 first leds light up,any idea what could be the problem?
great project. have you checked out, what max size of pixel a neopixel can light up? it wand to make pixels bigger than 2x2cm.
Hi greatscott you are great i have a problem with my soldering iron seem to repell the solder like if there was something on it plz help me