LED Butterfly Bench - Playa Tech with Edge-Lit Acrylic and Sparkle Motion

Adafruit Industries

Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/butterfly-bench-with-edge-lit-acrylic/overview Build a bench for your backyard or your festival theme camp that shows your logo or camp mascot in glowing rainbow colors. Playa Tech is a system of furniture plans designed by Sunshine Zwern. Create benches, tables and chairs from a single sheet of plywood using common wood shop tools. The furniture packs flat, then slots together in minutes, allowing you to bring an entire living room set for your festival camp in the back of your Subaru. This system is rapidly gaining popularity with the Burning Man crowd, and we've seen it being used at festivals nationwide. Our camp decided to get a bit fancy this year and worked together to create this Playa Tech Butterfly Bench. The butterfly is cut with a handheld CNC router from a sheet of 3/4" plywood, and then back-lit with edge-lit 1/4" acrylic, 30/m NeoPixels and running WLED software powered by a Sparkle Motion board. It's a lovely addition to our camp setup, and makes an absolutely lovely "selfie spot" in any garden. The LED build is pretty easy on this project. The challenge is in the woodworking. But, who doesn't love a good woodworking challenge? Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com Erin St Blaine - http://www.erinstblaine.com Playa Tech Furniture - http://www.playatech.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------