ABL LED Sign - Feb 2025

Let's give some visibility to the student's DIY club

DESCRIPTION

A (not so) basic LED sign we made for the local ‘hackerspace’ called ABL.
We still have a few esp8266 based boards laying aruound but they are mostly collecting dust so we decided that making a WIFI enabled LED sign and controller would put these to good use.
This is still a WIP, at the moment the sign is not yet assembled but the remote is fully operational.
Remote is based on an old laptop touchpad, and has haptic feedback.

TODO: Video demo, more writing, assembly and schematic.

GALLERY

Remote with the prototype case

Inside the remote

Inside the remote

Inside the remote

Parts of the actual sign

LEDs glued on the board

LEDs all wired up (please ignore the top strip, I’ll fix this later)

Masking logo before paint

Acrylic panel being painted

Demo of a single letter