Final Project proposal


The Awesome lighting unit


As I love LEDs, I once made a 8x8x8 led cube with My husband to show it in Maker Faire Cairo. After the maker faire we used it to decorate our home.The led Cube plays patterns in a certain time sequence but I always wanted to sync it with the music. So I decided to make The Awesome lighting unit "For me" By making a lighting unit with two modes. The first is the normal one to just switch on and off and the other is synching with Music.


As large led cubes are hard and time consuming to construct an I want it to be 3dimensional,I though to make a 3D printed ball with a holes that the leds can fit into to construct it easily.

The objectives of my graduation project are:

  • Make 3 dimensional lighting unit that syncs with music.
  • To be easy to construct and doesn't consume a lot of time.
  • To have two modes normal mode and music mode

The Graduation Project Modules are:

Module Description Fabrication Method related week

3D printed sphere

design and print a 3D sphere with holes for the leds to be fixed on it

3D printing

CAD design & 3D printing

Laser cut box

Design and Fabricate a laser cut box to fix the sphere on it and to hold the electrial circuits

Laser Cutting

CAD design & Computer controlled cutting

Mic circuit

Design an electrical circuit can take the sound played around and convert it into electrical signal

PCB milling

Input devices

LEDs circuit

Design an electrical circuit with matrix of leds that can sync with the electrical signal provided by the mic

PCB milling

output devices


Check what this propsal ended to at Final project page.

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