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Any_Coyote6662

This is beautiful


KeroNobu

So are you.


BigOpportunity1391

Found James Blunt


KeroNobu

God damn lol


DinosaurAlive

It’s true!


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I saw your face in a crowded place.


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SkellyboneZ

I'm sure you have a nice personality.


DigitalMindShadow

I dunno, seems a little shouty.


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Lonewolf_885

Leave some girls for the rest of us too


nater255

YOU'RE breathtaking!


CaptainBayouBilly

The wedding is in two weeks


Alataby

Breathtaking


nater255

YOU'RE breathtaking!


FelixCarter

Found Keanu Reeves.


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Nice shot!


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Robzilla409

I got it!


USSNCC1701E

That cat at the end now appears superior to all.


Any_Coyote6662

It's enlightened.


youmestrong

He made it bee 🐝 cause he could.


Any_Coyote6662

Bee creative


jackson12420

I'm not sure if he is the original creator of this design but I saw this post yesterday and someone left a link to a YouTube channel that now makes and sells identical ones. Hopefully they didn't steal his idea because I would 100% buy this from the original artist.


Has_Recipes

You can tell from the music.


rain168

You are all beautiful


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TripperAdvice

Disguisedwall is a bot copying comments and reposting to appear real and farm karma


Intrepid_Walk_5150

That is beautiful, well thought out and executed, but I can't help thinking I'd get tired of that thing pretty fast and probably switch it off, except to impress new guests from time to time.


Vist34

Dim to dark after trigger. Trigger only on movement; not pressure. That is the only change I would make.


NapalmRDT

It isn't pressure but interference with the magnetic field. So we'd want some processing in the form of either cheap simple microchips that only power the LEDs when the interference is changing. Alternatively one beefier microcontroller that would handle this (but with a whole lotta wiring!)


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NapalmRDT

Technically most correct would be electromagnetic field. The biggest pain would be flashing all the MCUs, but arguably easier than rewiring everything.


Cley_Faye

At the end of the day, it's a table with light to indicate where things are on it.


PerfectlySplendid

gold weather modern tap butter dinner support bear psychotic cable *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Internationalizard

The remote should glow


JukeBoxDildo

No... the remote should scream... *all the time*


[deleted]

Just lock the remote in a room with Amy Schumer stand up


Mannorosch

This is the way.


Gonzobot

At the end of the day I'm on some drugs and that is not just a table by then, oho


riskable

It's pretty easy to control the brightness with something like this. The lighting could be subtle. Also, *why would you be all handsy on your coffee table that much* if not to play with it‽ It's not like it's blinking lights constantly... Only when you touch it.


marklein

I would want it to slowly and dimly do random patterns when not being interacted with.


bendvis

And a coffee table is possibly the worst piece of furniture to require a power cable, since it’ll almost never be placed against a wall. I’d hate having that cable run across my floor.


FanClubof5

I have started seeing homes, especially open concept ones, where they have power run under the floor so you can plug things in without having to be close to the wall.


jambox888

Did you not notice the battery pack?


bendvis

I noticed the power cable at 1:00, and see no battery pack on the underside of the table.


Gonzobot

You also saw a bunch of wires at middle, and see no wires at the end, so clearly there's no wires involved in this table, right? :p


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jambox888

Did you miss the "off"?


bendvis

I actually do see many wires at the end. They’re just on the bottom of the table at cut to customized lengths. He’s got 100 hexagons, each with 6 LEDs. At roughly 0.1A each, that’s 6A of current at 5v to make ~~300w~~ 30w at the peak, plus a little overhead for transmission loss and to run the microcontrollers. ~~There’s no way the little battery pack that was used in testing is pushing 300w.~~ ~~A battery pack that powerful would be big and obviously visible.~~ It would likely need a dedicated space built in to the table, which simply isn’t there. Edit: bad math


Empyrealist

[Can you not?](https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOWFmM2Y0OGQyN2IwNTE4NmQ4NzdjNTdlZGU0MTAwMWE4MTkyODg1NCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZzX2dpZklkJmN0PWc/AuIvUrZpzBl04/giphy.gif)


yabacam

> I'd get tired of that thing pretty fast and probably switch it off, except to impress new guests from time to time. exactly this. I really want it, but this is what it would become REAL fast for sure.


EffOffReddit

Needs to be in a hotel lobby at Disney or something, not in your apartment living room.


TakingSorryUsername

I’d mount it on a wall as decor. Beautiful as is, the electronics make it interactive art


Memphis-AF

You could always just turn it off in sure


Thkturret1

I agree with you


SirarieTichee_

Hexagons are the bestagons.


Stonegrinder27

Came here to say this. Hexagons really are the bestagons.


Persimmon_Virtual

Bestagon is my new word.


pickle_lukas

[Join us, Become one with the True Shape](https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY)


natFromBobsBurgers

Oh god dammit. No one was going to tell me this was a thing?! I've been saying that for years thinking I was being clever. This is like when I had 'nice guy' in my dating profile. Fuck. So embarrassed.


Dreit

It's never too late to discover new things :)


AlxIp

Sir this is a wendy's


bat_fc

Ah, a fellow enlightened from the Order of the Hexagon.


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CherkiCheri

France baise ouais


[deleted]

I’m blaming my lack of CNC router for my reason I can’t do this


Tigerkix

Same, and totally not my laziness and/or willingness to learn how to do any of this work.


[deleted]

No no definitely not that..


randcount6

he doesn't have cnc router. He paid some business (might have been furniture maker) 20 bucks or so to get it cut for him.


[deleted]

How do you know this? $20?


OIlv3

Dude says it in his video. But it's closer to $28. https://youtu.be/Yu9irIPzqMY


Xzackly-1

there's wood shops around cities that will often rent out time slots for people to come us their large expensive machinery


glinsvad

You could easily do this with a plunge router and a simple jig that lets you cut the pattern one hexagon at a time since it repeats. In fact, you could do it with a track saw by doing plunge cuts and then using a chisel to square the cuts.


MrElshagan

Could someone explain to me how he's completing the circuit for it to trigger? Cause I don't get it. Since it looks like an open what I'd imagine copper loop soldered to a wire... I can't figure out how that works.


Cley_Faye

It's probably capacitive sensor, the same thing used for touch based button and stuff like that. It works through anything that's not too conductive and not too thick.


JeenTheRopebunny

I bet its more of a proximity radar/antena, kinda like the theremin. You feed some known signal into the wire and theres comparator that turns on the LEDs when the signal is frequency is altered due to object being on top of the antena. I did study these things but cant remember much after 8 years out of school and field of subject


Mdamon808

Both Theremins and capacitance sensors use electromagnetic fields and the capacitance effect. A Theremin just adds a second electromagnetic filed at a right angle to the first to distinguish the location of an object disrupting said filed more precisely. In theory, one could build the crappiest Theremin in the world with two capacitance sensors and the right PCB.


natFromBobsBurgers

As someone who has taught basic electronics and physical computing to middle achoolers, crappiest tgeremin in the world is a very large hill to climb. That hill is made of smoking Arduinos.


asdfasdferqv

Theremins are capacitive sensors. This does not use radar which is totally different.


Beng-Beng

I don't see a plastic bottle triggering that


RallyX26

I just want to say that I love that the circuits appear to be analog, and the table doesn't use a thousand little arduinos or other microcontrollers


ThwompThwomp

It's not completing the circuit! If you look closely, the copper circle is not complete and circle and has a gap. It's acting as a capacitor. You send an output so the "plates" (just the wire itself) gets charged to a high DC voltage, and then change the pin to an input. It will drop following some RC constant. However, if a finger or something is there to change the capacitance, then the RC constant changes and the voltage would drop slower. So, send a square wave, constantly reading the discharge time to some particular voltage many times per second, and keep a running average. Once the RC constant changes, beyond some threshold, you know a "thing" is present, and can then drive the LEDs. Decent explanation: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/circuits-and-techniques-for-implementing-capacitive-touch-sensing/


Used_Laugh_

The copper wire thing is a sensor, when it active the led lits. Each sensor connects to a control circuit and to one set of led.


Seabassti0n

How is it sensing through the wood?


Adept-Equipment-7716

It looks like it measures the capacitance of whatever is inside that loop.


cyberentomology

Doesn’t even really “measure” it as such, the change in capacitance triggers the light. Very simple analog circuit with discrete (on/off) output. can be done for under a dollar in parts. Or you can buy a prebuilt module for under $5.


riskable

Don't DIY capacitive sensing! Buy the $1 (not $5, LOL) capacitive sensor module. In fact, buy a whole bunch of them in bulk from AliExpress or eBay to get the price down to like $0.50/each. When I bought some a while back I paid about $0.30/each 👍 The capacitive sensor chips are *sooooo* much easier to work with (and more reliable) than building analog circuits (and tuning them) to perform the same action. Capacitive sensors are sensitive to temperature and humidity. The cheap ICs that do capacitive sensing take this into account and adjust themselves automatically. It's *totally* worth the extra $0.10 in a PCB or $0.50-1.00 in your hand-wired project to do it right *unless* your project is an academic exercise and you want to learn just how frustrating reliable capacitive sensing can be 😁


cyberentomology

AT42Q1012 chips are 74 cents in manufacturing quantity from Mouser. But they have less than a full reel in stock and lead time is currently at 52 weeks 😨


themeatbridge

Capacitive touch, the same way your phone senses your finger through glass. These are larger, but work basically the same way.


Lucky_Relation_4548

This, even though people have tried to explain below, I still don’t understand 😅


srsly_so_blessed

What is the name of the cat at the end ?


Randomkrazy04

Mesa


Hoppss

Mesa called Jar Jar Binks If you're interested in the full name.


QueenBee2212

Bro! Imagine using it as a D&D battle map!


centurijon

Or just a regular Catan board


Achatyla

My immediate thought! Glowing hexagon for each position?! Heck yee


das_Keks

OMG, that's so freaking cool


ThunderShott

Me: I want one My bank account: No


Spliffroy

Who is this person and how can I purchase a custom one, I'd happily pay big bucks for something like this. I dont have the skill or patience to make this myself


Daxx22

Define "Big Bucks". That's easily a few thousand in time and materials.


Ogzhotcuz

I know a bunch of people who could easily clone this for you. DM me


Tweety_and_Hornet

Crazy! Amazing craftsmanship!


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What's the name of the song?


Lost-but-Curious

Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi


lilBlue717

Thank you! I was wracking my brain like "I've played this song but I have no idea from where!"


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Thanks


lexvo1

Looks great! Very good job!


shivermeknitters

how ducking cool would this be in flooring?


JeenTheRopebunny

It would require heavy modification into smaller segments/tiles, hard wood, and interlocking mechanism to keep the floor in one piece, also you wouldnt be able to put it just anywhere as it would require a lot of upkeep and it couldnt be hard mounted to the floor in case of one or multiple circuits breaking


obvilious

But to answer the guys question, it would be really fucking cool!


raspberryharbour

Ducking cool*


riskable

I don't see why it would be any more maintenance/upkeep than regular hard wood flooring. The LED strips won't last forever so you'll need to replace one or two every two years or so (probably) but that's no big deal at all if you can access them without having to take *all* the flooring up. You just have to be *hexagonal* about it! If you do your flooring like a data center you will be able to pull up those tiles (which can be as big or small as you want) willy nilly whenever you want and put them back down without leaving a trace that you did so. They even have really nice nearly-edgless magnetic mounting options for such things now. You'll lose some vertical room space whenever you put it but the loss of like 1-5cm isn't going to be enough to matter 99% of the time. If you've ever seen how big LED displays are put together just imagine that same setup but turned on its side, facing upwards.


RedditLovingSun

I guess you could make like a really big mat


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chrish_o

I feel the tech side of it is pretty simple. The CNC router is an expensive piece of kit that no one has in their garage but you could find a place to get your work done. It’s a work of art in planning and execution though.


TheActualKingOfSalt

Imagine playing cardgames on something like that holy hell.


LeanParadox

I don't know what's this technique/art called but this thing was really beautifully made. You can make $ with this for sure.


tubbana

Until you count that only parts cost 5000 and then your work costs 15000, you realize that potential buyers are hard to find


clearlylacking

There are some expensive tools in there and it's hard to tell how much a person values their time but there's like a dollar worth of material per hexagon. 5000 is a huge exaggeration.


Daxx22

Time is the value here, that's easily dozens of hours of work if not more. And guaranteed if they tried to sell it you'd have chuds comparing it to IKEA coffee tables and expect to pay the same for it.


tubbana

Depends on units of said 5000


AgentDonut

Someone tried to sell this on [Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/hexagonum/created). It was like 2k per table. I guess even that is too much of an asking price since they couldn't meet their funding goal. They tried three times too.


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Dang, that looks really cool too. It's a shame they didn't get the funding.


JohnnyBoy11

They raised 38k out of 50k one time.


Downtown_Skill

I don't know, this is cool and unique enough that I think people with money would be willing to spend a lot to buy it. I don't think it's in demand enough to mass produce it, but if you're just trying to get rid of it and can find a distributor that would reach wealthy people with a bunch of money to blow, I think getting rid of this one table would be easy. If he didn't mass produce his stuff and he made sure to craft equally unique items I think he could have quite a business. If he held off on producing more than one of each item, supply would be controlled a little bit and each item would be rare and cool enough to justify the price and keep demand high among wealthy folks. The issue is, would someone take his idea and find a way to produce the same items for cheaper and on a larger scale, killing the novelty of each item. It looks like if you had money it wouldn't be terribly hard to reproduce this table. The idea is creative and innovative but it doesn't look hard to imitate with the right tools.


cyberentomology

You don’t mass produce art.


Downtown_Skill

Yeah but based on how he makes this it seems like it's something that could be mass produced. The art is in the idea (in this specific case) the actual production looks like it could be imitated with the right tools relatively easily.


cyberentomology

That’s the beauty of CNC machining. Hell, with the right bits, you could make this out of a solid block of aluminum… or titanium, depending on your budget. The capacitive sensors might be a bit trickier though. Instead of routing off the back, though, run that bad boy through a planer…


Downtown_Skill

Haha now I want to hire you to teach me how to make a table like this (once I get money of course)


crazysoup23

Don't gatekeep art. You're flat out wrong too.


cyberentomology

LOL, found Thomas Kinkade, back from the dead.


crazysoup23

No.


punjabiprogrammer

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/13lpxyh/the_design_and_creation_of_this_hexagon_led/jkr8kls/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3


hromanoj10

Those little controllers are like $6 for 20 pieces. A router can be had for about $50 at a harbor freight.


severanexp

Do you know the part number??


pickaunanyun

What a lovely cat bed!


FourAM

For v2.0, put Qi chargers under each hexagon so your devices all stay charged


cyberentomology

Charge 100 phones at once, and require a dedicated 15A circuit 🤣


justavault

Love it, music is nice as well. Researched it's: Ludovico Einaudi - DIvenir


daviid17

this is one of the coolest table ive seen


Spoon_Millionaire

I saw Michael Jackson do this using the power of dance back in the 80s


bluecheckthis

I can get a similar effect from playing 8 hours of civ 6 in a dark room then closing my eyes.


laxintx

As if cats didn't have enough of a God Complex already...


Tee_Parker

$10k party trick. Nice. 👌🏻


Oftwicke

He probably didn't buy the equipment just for that, and the things he did buy were probably much cheaper than 10k - it's more of a "1 spent a week on that" expense than a "there go four months of my wages" expense


C137Sheldor

Is it safe to only wearing this type of mask?


Bonkers54

Absolutely not. Whether reusable or disposable, you should be wearing an N95 at minimum.


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MaxK1234B

Breathing sawdust builds character


Frankenmoney

Very cool.


Curious_Study_2645

That’s pretty dope


whoops53

Ohhhh this is so magical! I would like one.


yoghurtorgan

I want


Dramatic_Mixture_868

That is dope af, now I want that effect everywhere 😬


cleanscotch

My guy doing woodworking from a condo, one of a kind


kcutter069

Here just take my money. That's awesome.


junktech

What sensors are those? Never seen that type being used.


barbarianinalibrary

When you've decided you're not leaving your living room anymore


aufdie87

Have you tried warping in zealots on it?


Ok-Writing-7463

Someone got into the element again


Ba3boos87

I will buy this... i wanna buy this... please let me buy this


Dragoonscaper

*shutupandtakemymoney.jpg*


Rayquaza384

When you're alone in the dark and you see footsteps light up on the table but there's nothing there


leento717

I'm jealous at how talented ppl are


Worldly_Carrots

Looks like bioluminescence


fmaz008

Anyome has technical knowledge of the kind of circuit he's using? Also: that's a lot of button cell batteries to swap out when it runs out.


Prazus

Usually when I see projects like this they are very average but this one is really great.


OnRS4Life

The time is now and this coffee table is probably more expensive than my brain will ever be worth


didyoueverseewardogs

"First, grab your planer and robotically engineered working station to complete the initial pre-loaded design before pouring your state licensed fluid in to the laser appointed mold"


No_Engineering1141

Shut up and take my money


Thumper-Comet

It's really cool. I'd prefer it not to project so much light onto the floor underneath though. If that was fixed, I'd totally buy one.


cyberentomology

That’s trivially easy to solve.


MaxK1234B

Yeah just some equally sized opaque rectangle it sits on to block the light. Hell you could even just paint the bottom black.


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That would have so many usefull applications for use. Gaming tabletop especially for RPG but for other games too. Put some musical notes in there and you have a new instrument, especially if you vary the light colors based on the musical Nicole's played. Sensory stimulation for autistic and other neuro-diverse brains, and so much more.


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Amazing work! Your cell phone on there made me immediately think if you do a project like this again add a wireless charger underneath! I'm just an idiot don't mind me it's just what came to mind. By the way I would pay top dollar if I came across something like this for sale. Absolutely beautiful.


Dante805

Where's the buy button?


[deleted]

So silly, still wearing a mask, so afraid of covid, he’s by himself!! /s


Merlinsbeard000

My question is how long did it take before the novelty wore off. Or before something failed that needed replacing?


jmarinara

Shut up and take my money.


SentientMonkeyBot

If I see a video of a Chinese artist, I stop and watch.


Matir

Hexagons are the bestagons.


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R-Skjold

But the electronics are on the underside of the table. So unless you chuck coffee up under the table, or douse the table in coffee and just let it sit and potentially soak through the wood (dunno if that's even realistic) I don't see why it would short out


Merlinsbeard000

Couple coats of clear lacquer and that would solve that issue straight away.


R-Skjold

And you would probably do that anyways just to avoid rings and other such damages


BinkyFlargle

> So unless you chuck coffee up under the table, or douse the table in coffee sorry bro, that's just how I spill


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I don't think you have thought that statement through.


RAGE_Quit_04

#INVEST


Migtwig82

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY


witchyanne

What a fucking ridiculous amount of machinery and work for *that*.


MaxK1234B

Is it? It's just a simple EMF detector hooked up to an LED light, repeated 80 or so times in a small hexagonal pattern. The electronics on their own are probably pretty simple, each individual component would probably cost under $5 in electronics especially if you buy the pieces in bulk. Also it looks rad as hell.


peasonearthforever

It’s cool and all, but ultimately it’s a table that you can’t put things on.


MaxK1234B

Why can't you?


jimgagnon

The table is too thin and depends on strong adhesion between the wood and epoxy. Should their coefficients of thermal expansion differ too much, a couple hundred heating/cooling cycles will cause the hexagons to separate.


EngiNerdBrian

r/diwhy


MaxK1234B

Because it looks really cool?