🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📺 The video discusses the creation of a massive LED sphere in Las Vegas. 00:27 🌐 The team decided on an 8ft diameter for their sphere and plans for a smaller 3D printable version. 01:10 🎮 They designed the sphere to have consistent pixel resolution at the top and bottom as well as the middle. 02:05 🪚 The frame was constructed with five horizontal rings, 18 vertical ribs, and 77 rings of pixels. 02:48 💡 The team painstakingly added 20,000 pixels to the sphere using 1-inch spaced pixel strap. 04:13 ⚙️ They used a Kulp 32 controller with 29 data outputs and 700 LEDs per channel to control the sphere's lighting effects. 05:11 🔌 The sphere is powered by two 12-volt 100-amp power supplies and is controlled via an ethernet connection. 06:07 🎨 X lights software is used for creating designs and sequences for the LED sphere. 07:02 💥 The video showcases the LED sphere in action with various impressive lighting effects. 10:45 🙌 The video ends with a thank you to the audience for watching. Made with HARPA AI

This is by far one of the greatest LED DIY projects I've ever followed to date. The effort is just crazy but super worth it. Thanks so much for sharing with the world! ❤

Need to add Chain Chomp from Mario Bros.!!! That would be perfect!

Ooooh the party potential, you just need a 200 foot tower now to freak out your neighbours with the big flaming eye of Sauron on the top.

Ive never seen any self made project more impressive than this. I could watch this for hours. Kudos. 👏 👏 👏

The coolest family project ever! Just awsome

What an awesome project..... and to get your family involved is even better. Thanks for not only doing this, but making the video and sharing it. Cheers!

This is fantastic, I gotta respect the sheer amount of work and time spent on this project...I love my ws2812b's i just don't get the time to do things on this scale....plus power is very expensive in the UK right now...huge respect to you and all who helped.

Incredible job guys.

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

Looks super. Thanks for sharing. 👏🏻👏🏻

Impressive project!

Wow, great job!

Awesome job! Wow!

Just brilliant!

This is incredible!

I was there 2 weeks ago, and saw it in person for the first time. Attended the U2 concert this week and took some close-up of their "pixels". Each pixel contains 40-something smaller lights. It's pretty impressive.

Great work!

Love it! Nice work

Awsome proyect congrats

Great job!

Congrats, inspirational. Thanks for the tutorial :)

This is rad! Well done!

Sick ... great video of the process

thats awesome! I need this! thanks for sharing!

This is awesome 👌

Awesome job!!

first demo for some reason, the sounds takes me back to Warcraft II or III for some reason haha.

That's just crazy, DrZzs!!

Pretty fun..pretty cool..well done.

Really cool. good job

Thats a cool project imagine with even a denser array how much details you can get.

Love everything you do mate! 👍

Massive ! Respect and cheers from Hamburg, GER

This is crazy!

AWESOME AND AMAZING!!! 👏 👌 👍

Mad respect.

Thats so sick dude! Amazing job

this is the best thing i have ever seen!

Pretty darn cool.

Amazing❤❤❤

Such a cool project

This is amazing

Brilliant. And to think I was so proud of myself for putting my first 2 led strips up yesterday 😂 need to up my game now👍🏻

Just commenting for the algorithm… Great work!

Awesome work! My pixel pushing fingers ache for you. Very cool to see that this was all done with xlights and a stock controller.

Amazing, love it! 😂

great video

Very Cool!!!

Insane! Wow!

Out of curiosity how much did this cost? Real nice job!

Wow, that’s awesome, I love the colourful videos, I’d bet it’ll be great for Halloween and Christmas displays. Well done ❤👍👍👍👍

Oh man! Your neighbors will love it! 🤣🤣

This is an incredible undertaking. I’ve been researching for spherical wire frames that I can wrap with pixels somehow. Strips may work but the fixed led spacing seems to make it difficult to align the layers. I’m definitely inspired by your project. Thanks!

Incredible

wow amazing

Make it fly!!!!! That would be EPIC!!

Commenting to feed the YT algorithm. Awesome Build! looking forward to V2.

Fabulous

That home Vegas shere is absolutely amazing.

this is the sickest thing ive seen a youtuber done. Like probably not technically but like the thing that i most actually want to have

Reminds me about Leds Party, winner of Real wild demo compo at assembly summer 2011. It was spinning display style globe.

This is impressive

Smaller 3D printed DIY version sounds like a lot of fun!

Never knew the tower of Mordor was so big 😮

Very cool

Now use industrial shrink wrap to seal it all in and diffuse the light

Gentleman, thanks for the idea, links and excellent explanation of each step. I'm geographically lucky, and due to my former employment, connected to both Daktronics and Digikey. Also, Daktronics' manufacturing facility for billboards is about 5 miles from my house. As billboards are made from square, approximately 200 millimeter panels, mine wouldn't be perfectly round, and made from decommissioned parts. I've inquired as to what they have in extremely inexpensive parts, I'm hoping for panels with 5-millimeter led spacing, and plan to start with one about half the size of yours. I've decided to use Daktronics components as I have worked on their boards since the mid 1980's when the pixels where micro incandescent lamps behind round RGB caps, and as I worked my up the corporate ladder in my former industry, I eventually ended up purchasing products from them. Hopefully I can convince the local tech college to help with the design and welding of the repurposed aluminum from the billboard. What do you think of putting the object on a pedestal? this way a hatch could be paced on the bottom for access. Unfortunately going this route will mean dealing with proprietary software, but my former technical crew are excellent at creating mods for Daktronics control modules (and they work for beer). I'll also have issues dealing with heat dissipation which will greatly increase my power consumption. Thanks again for the great idea, and great video! I have no idea why KZfaq's algorithm suggested your video this morning, but I'm glad it did. Then of course I have to convince my wife...

This is gonna be perfect for holloween!!!!

I'd like to see a Mario CHOMP CHOMP in that sphere. :)

That's so cool, That black plastic strap will warp with the heat I would consider aluminum strap

over the top!

DUDE! I don't comment on a lot of videos, but this is an epic creation! Awesome job!

Some of the effects look much better than the others, the end result is very good.. Need some snow globes and christmas ornament style animations, and probably more eyeballs and pumpkins for halloween. Size, materials and power seem to be a challenge on this one.. Way out of my budget for the big one built here for sure but I wonder about having a bunch of basket ball or beach ball size ones along my driveway with animated pumpkins, eyes etc.. I can't wait to see the more optimized design.

Man, need to sell that!!! Streamline that!!! A lot of people would get that for the holidays

You should do a livestream and let the viewers put whatever they want on the sphere

You mentioned approx *$10k cost* and 20k lights. Thank you for spending the time/money to save those of us wanting to do the same :) Can you explain the primary reason for using the _large pixel lights that require assembly,_ versus LED strips w/slide-on diffractors (to blend pixels a bit).

If you want to make it so that it's not floppy between your ribs. Go buy enough yards of polyester fleece to wrap the entire structure before putting on your strands it's up to you how you put it on stapling each longitude section together. Once that is done and the fabric is tight, it's up to you how you do it but you can even get a cheap automobile spray gun, drill out the nozzle to make it capable of being used with thick material, then get yourself some fiberglass resin and hardener, mix a pot, fill your gun and shoot. Keep going until you're done I'm going to guess you're going to need probably around 3-5 gallons. Pedicure for 24 hours and then go ahead and start putting your lights on all of your indents for your levels should be still there and straight providing you did your attention and stapling correctly. I really enjoyed seeing this I can't wait to see 2.0 😁👍

Dude, that would make a dope snow globe in the yard for Xmas.

Absolutely amazing,... nice so nice .LED fan from Spain... May look at miniLEDs for a 30/40cm diameter one

This is awesome 😎👍 I want to make one but smaller for my table in my bedroom

That's really cool, any power injection added to the pixels strips length?

next up infinity mirror sphere! or a sphere withing a sphere within a sphere for that ultimate 3D effect. 🤣

¡Gracias!,🎉👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍾🥂

This is awesome 😎👍 I want one but smaller for my bedroom

that's .... lit

very kool

That's amazing, can't wait for the smaller version to build one myself. Maybe a half-sphere would be an option too? Mine would face a wall, and it would be cool to put it up snug against the wall to get the stray light on the wall from the half-sphere. I hope you get what I mean, it would be easier to get normal videos for it, too.

Great now I gotta build one.😂

Neat I feel like it needs a diffusor though. Maybe something simple as a while sheet or something.

This was so cool! I would love to make handheld spheres using a raspberry pi or something

omg I want one for my backyard.... its amazing... I live in Vegas

Top job Doc !!! What a shit ton of work

I can't wait til yall get a bigger budget from some company. The skys the limit!

Bro you deserve lot more subscribers than what you have

I wonder if 3d printing hexagons and glueing it all up would have the same effect versus wrapping.

This ball used in a chistmas/halloween light display house like "tom betgeorge" has would be a good addition

i wonder if it would be possible to increase the pixel density by using smaller smd leds tighter packed.

Better be giving out some full sized candy bars with that set up 😂

should have incorporated a car jack and a hinge to be able to lift it on one side so someone could crawl in for maintenance / repair