Tech info: The 1152 LEDs are controlled at 150fps by one of @PaulStoffregen's Teensy 4.0, an amazingly fast Microcontroller. The animations are generated by a python script on a PC, and sent via USB. Each spring is connected to a touch sensor, allowing true 72-multitouch.
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The shape is a 72-face polyhedron, using 12 pentagons and 60 (slightly) irregular hexagons. I found the size formula on this site: http://dmccooey.com/polyhedra/DualGeodesicIcosahedron3.html … and designed custom PCBs for each face. Pictures of the making-off are on my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ZiMN6AU00/
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As a little easter-egg I commissioned
@designCaitlin to draw abstract-ish art for the hidden side of the PCBs. It came out amazing, and I'm definitely gonna commission more art for my PCBs going forward. Look at it!pic.twitter.com/wS9Lh3bW0A
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On that photo you can also see the little interconnectors that route the LED signal, power and touch info to other PCBs. Each pentagon acts as a primary board for its surrounding hexagons, and each pentagon is connected to a main board with the touch sensors and the Teensy.
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Oooooh! Wobbly and spherical!
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Digging the Bee Garden mode!
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hey Robin can I virtually wobble it?
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You can tell me which spring and I take a video of it? Or maybe I should make a Twitch wobbles Sphere? :D
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This is obviously natural evolution taking place in the wobble universe.
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wobbleverse
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