Light box wall art

Henry

Henry

Published: February 19, 2026

Status: Carved

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description

I carved the shell with the cnc out of plywood. Added some washi rice paper behind the front panel to dilute light. Then there's a panel of 366 leds one for each hole. The design was inspired by calendar art where each hole represents a day and each column represents a month

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notes

The dadoes may need to be adjusted since they didn't really work for me and I ended up manually gluing the sides

machine

X-Carve Pro

materials

Birch Plywood

tags

Home Decor
COMMENTS
John McWhirter

This is cool! Was the LED panel something you bought or did you build it?

John McWhirterPro · February 20, 2026

Henry

I got an led strip roll and cut it up to make the columns and connected each column with led connectors and wires. Originally tried soldering but that didn't work out.

HenryPro · February 20, 2026

Jeff Talbot

do the days light up like a calendar to show where we are in the year?

Jeff TalbotPro · February 20, 2026

Henry

no, I think it's possible but I didn't get around to programming LEDs to do that

HenryPro · February 23, 2026

James Rodovich

How are you controlling the LED colors?

James RodovichPro · February 26, 2026

Henry

I'm using an ESP32 controller and the WLED app to control the color/effects of the lights

HenryPro · February 27, 2026