you can get a diffuse effect from sanding the acrylic surface. I’m not sure if an overspray will give the same effect unless it is transparent and just rough. You will likely lose some brightness at the interface between the spray and the acrylic, but it is hard to say how much without knowing exactly what the spray is.
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One final LED question I’m curious about: did you connect your lights to the Jackpot board, or are you using an independent controller? I’m not concerned about power, just the data signal for control. From an admittedly cursory skim through the FluidNC wiki, I didn’t see an obvious configuration for or way to control LEDs.
I am running a second ESP32 with WLED on it to control the lights. I set up 3 segments and a preset for what I want them to do at start up so as soon as I plug it in they default to what I want.
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Ohhhhhh do they cycle on boot? Jeez now I really want to add some.
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On the SKR they would flash RGB then go to whatever was set. On WLED they just dim up to what I have the start up preset at. Not going to lie it is fun taking my phone out and playing with them from the app. In a dark garage the lightning one is pretty dang cool lol
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Oh man you can set the wled to boot to a certain pattern…I NEED this. The Knight rider red, back and forth, while it is waiting… I still haven’t looked into the triggers but I need to. I might even add this to the end of my list (that I have actually crossed some things off of).
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Yes you can set several presets. And you can chose one to auto trigger on startup. And you can also use a button to change though presets as well. That’s where your inputs will come in handy. Only thing I’m not real sure of is there are different length button presses for different things. Short press long press double press all kinds of stuff. And I’m not sure how we could get the jackpot to do that with gcode. That’s your department lol
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You can add an IR receiver and use one of those generic led remotes with it as well.
Or you can even run the sound reactive wled and figure out how to make it react to how hard the router is cutting lol
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Easy with gcode. Trigger, wait x amount, trigger.
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See that’s stuff I know nothing about… yet. I sure wish I could read about that stuff and understand what I’m reading. Lol
What is this sorcery? I must learn!
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Down the rabbit hole I go. Thanks!
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lol that’s a deep hole there. But good thing is there is TONS of info out there. And many many YouTube videos. Doubt you will find any about putting it on a LR3 but same info applies
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I missed why you didn’t plug into the CNC controller. Marlin has support for neopixels / leds
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I’m running the Jackpot board. Back when I had the SKR on my smaller LR3 that is how I ran them
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It does but nothing like WLED lets you do, and an esp32 control board is $3 for as many lights as you want.
We can actually control LEDs to some degree (on and off) with the jackpot but you would probably want to add a module for different zones and colors. An ESP is far cheaper and way more powerful with wled.
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For no more lights that we run on a LR3 you can actually get away with a cheaper ESP8266 board as well. But for the price if you don’t have either you may as well get the 32. Just one of the D1 minis even work great
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Yeah, I’m familiar with WLED. How would you control WLED with gcode?
That’s where I think this would be most fun. Running - bright white, bit change - purple, job finished - rainbow, etc
You can make presets and then have the jackpot put out a “button press” via gcode to have wled change presets. I haven’t gotten this far yet but I might dive more into it when I get back home in 2 weeks. After I get the machine running the jobs I need lol
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