Wooden Christmas tree with addressable LEDs

A wooden Christmas tree with addressable LEDs (WS2812 / Neopixels)

Maarten Schipper

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Description

I had my 3 year old niece visiting for Christmas. On Christmas morning I decided to make a wooden Christmas tree with adressable LEDs that we could paint together.

Files

christmas-tree-base.step step - 21.72 kB - 12/27/2021 at 22:13		Download
christmas-tree-base.stl Standard Tesselated Geometry - 41.49 kB - 12/27/2021 at 22:13		Download

Components

1 × 5mm plywood
1 × Addressable LED strip WS2812 / neopixel
1 × Arduino I used an UNO but others will be fine aswell
1 × Dupont wires To solder to the LED strip or to plug in to the LED strip connector

Build Instructions

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1

Print a Christmas tree

Search the internet for a nice looking Christmas tree and print it at the desired size (I used 2 pieces of A4 paper).
2

Cut out the Christmas tree

Cut the image of the Christmas tree around the outline.
3

Draw the Christmas tree on to the wood

Tape the Christmas tree to the wood and than trace the outline of the Christmas tree with a pencil on to the wood.