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WLED Lamp and 16×16 LED Matrix

Two light builds I designed in SolidWorks and printed on my 3D printer, controlled from my phone over Wi-Fi.

WLED Lamp

  • SolidWorks
  • 3D Printing
  • ESP8266
  • WLED

A cylindrical lamp I designed and printed, with colour effects I can control from my phone over Wi-Fi.

What I built. A circular, cylindrical lamp with a base. A 24-LED addressable ARGB ring is controlled by an ESP8266 running WLED. The whole enclosure is my own design in SolidWorks, printed on my 3D printer.

Power and safety. WLED current limits are configured. The LEDs are powered directly from a USB-C supply and not through the microcontroller's power pins, because they draw much more current than the board can supply.

The cylindrical lamp glowing bright pink in a dark room, sitting on its round base.
The lamp lit in a dark room.
Looking down into the open lamp: a ring of addressable LEDs around an ESP8266 board, with the wiring running to a small power connector, inside the black printed enclosure.
Inside the lamp: the LED ring, the ESP8266 board and the wiring.

16×16 LED Matrix

  • SolidWorks
  • 3D Printing
  • ESP32
  • WLED
  • Klipper
  • Orca Slicer

A 256-pixel glowing display that shows animations and patterns, controlled over Wi-Fi.

What I built. A 16×16 addressable ARGB LED matrix (an off-the-shelf LED panel, 256 LEDs) driven by an ESP32 flashed with stock WLED firmware. I configured WLED with power limits, and the LEDs are powered directly from USB-C, not through the ESP's power pins.

My design work. I designed a multi-part enclosure in SolidWorks: frame, body, diffuser and grid. It is printed on a single-colour printer with Klipper firmware and Orca Slicer, and I paused mid-print to swap filaments to get multi-colour parts.

The matrix showing an animation in a dark room.
The printed parts: frame, body, diffuser and grid.