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What started as a little neon light evolved into a huge oversized, metal structure that lives in the middle of my living room. A huge 35kg display monster that shows my latest dron...
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What started as a little neon light evolved into a huge oversized, metal structure that lives in the middle of my living room. A huge 35kg display monster that shows my latest drone videos, AI generated art wallpapers and videos, and security cameras. To top it all off it comes with a custom phone app that allows users to send videos, photos and even voice messages that play in the living room on Sonos speakers upon arrival.
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This is a custom built RGB Led panel display running a local Mac Mini as a backend for the webservers running the management software and hub to interact with the rest of the home.
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The physical structure of the display is made from full metal pipes because that was the aesthetic that I was going for. To mount the panel to the pipes, I used 20x20 aluminium extrusions. This gave me a solid platform to build off of while still keeping maximum flexibility in what I want to mount where and how. Perfect for future changes or upgrades.
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The entire display is held together by custom mounting hardware that was all designed and 3D printed by myself. I used Fusion 360 to design the components. Printing was done using a Bambu Carbon X1D and PLA. Most of it is designed to hold things together using M5 screws and washers.
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This monstrosity is essentially run off a second hand Mac Mini. It comes with an M2 processor and 8GB of RAM. The 8GB of RAM felt a little on the low side when I took my chance but as it turns out, it's plenty for what I need here. It runs TouchDesigner to run all the visualizations. A local webserver interacts with the TouchDesigner node to show both native video content through TouchDesigner Movie nodes or web content through a Web node. The main communication from and to TouchDesigner is done using a websocket. Python was used inside the TouchDesigner environment to handle the incoming commands and processing.
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Power delivery is done using 2 power supplies of each 200W. This powers the 28 RGB LED panels. This is enough to power the entire display while it shows full white content. This usually never happens so power usage will probably run somewhere between 150W and 280W during normal operations.
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To run the RGB panels, we're using 1 sender card and 2 receiver cards. The sender card gets input from the Mac Mini through an HDMI-to-DVI connector. The sender card sends the data stream over a UTP cable to the receiver cards. The receiver cards are chained so that the panel can scale. That hardware is not very popular and documentation on how to set things up is scarce on the internet. So this was the harder part. We only used 2 nodes now but we can easily expand this to a lot larger build with more nodes and larger panels... Maybe at my new studio... Dear god, no. I have to stop thinking about that right now.
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Of course none of this works unless you have a fully working control panel, and that I have. A custom HTML build with some basic vanilla JS that allows users to choose which content to show, to stream the actual content from the display to anywhere else (including the webpage itself) and to add/manage/remove content and even grab livestreams!
The webpage comes with a full content management system including content download systems and video trimming tools! The internal OBS streamer on the Mac Mini picks up the TouchDesigner output streams and converts it into streamable web video that can be and streamed on any device that can stream web video content... Which these days is EVERYTHING. The amount of software features and flexibility makes the hardware aspect of this build look like a freaking joke!
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This is a one-off that is not sold anywhere. I love building stuff like this and would be happy to build one for you, to your own custom dimensions, custom features and specs. Let's talk and figure out which features you want and need, what the use-case is and get you a setup that is specifically built for you!