I didn’t start out intending for this to be such a big project. It stared out with an attempt to make a piece of furniture for our HiFi and ended up with a bunch of hardware and software design to make the backlight adjust based on the music. Here’s the finished product: Here are individual blog posts for …

Introduction I’ve previously discussed building a Stereo Console which is backlit using a LIFX Z-Strip, We thought it’d be cool if the backlight modulated in conjunction with the music we’re listening to so I set about building an Arduino to sample audio, perform an FFT and then produce a light …

Introduction We bought a record player and started collecting vinyl during the pandemic. We weren’t able to find a well suited piece of furniture, so i set about making a console out of some scrap boards we had left over from another project. I didn’t take any photos of the construction because I …

Introduction We own a couple of 5 cell pieces of an animated film and we’ve never had a good way to exhibit them, I made an illuminated frame that uses a couple of LED backlight modules. I used ESPHome to connect it to Home Assistant so it can easily be controlled like the rest of our lights. Bill of Materials I …