Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website OpticalData @startrek.website 10mo ago

Today I finally finished my office background MSD

It took over a year of getting all the parts together and is back lit my nanoleaf panels (hence the lines and gaps at the edge). A worthy trade off for the fun effects!

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Have you heard about my lord and savior WLED? You could build an extremely powerful backlight system with no seams.

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED
- The nanoleaf was mostly because I had them in a cupboard and thought this would be a fun use, but I already have designed on a V2 with better lighting and accurate static borders
  
  Sick! Where did you get the ship design? Is that something you made and printed?
  
  You could also control the Nanoleaf panels to get them to flicker when you're taking damage
- I’m interested, tell me more.
  
  WLED + microprocessor [ESP32] + neopixel LEDs
  
  A lot of my house has custom made WLED fixtures I control with my Home Assistant setup. I also just setup a hyperion server and that is a TON of fun.
You made it so.
WOW! That looks amazing!

Would you mind sharing your process for how you made this? (Even if I end up being too lazy to do it myself, I'm very interested!)

Have you considered using a diffuser to get rid of the lines? https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-make-a-light-diffuser-on-a-budget
At meetings, do you keep fiddling with it?

And when presenting something, do you ~~pretend to~~ read from it?
- Yes.
  
  The great thing about the acrylic top layer is that if I want too, I can use whiteboard markers
  
  I always wondered who cleans all the marker "art"/graffiti from those panels on Voyager.
  
  "It would appear that someone drew what is commonly referred to as 'cock & balls' style of art on my long-range scanner console, again, perhaps in an attempt to achieve humour. I shall review the security logs and crew medical data to find whoever did this."
  
  "Acknowledged. And find out where are they getting whiteboard markets, it might be some unknown alien technology."
That is just awesome! I’d love to see some of the lighting effects.
- I did a tweet which shows a few of the options. But anything Nanoleaf can do, I can do here. Including custom set ups
This is amazing thanks for sharing!
Tell me more about that chair?

I am tempted to copy this idea...
- It's a Herman Miller given to me by my work.
  
  I picked the colour for the Excelsior vibes it gave me
  
  It looks extremely cool in that room
Now... I'd love to read a How To.
Looking good!
Beautiful work
@OpticalData That looks super dope!

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