LED Tree Topper

prusaprinters

<p>I really enjoyed <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3310601">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3310601</a> as a tree topper that was posted a couple years back. I had used it as my tree topper for a couple years, but always felt like something was missing. I realized what was missing was that it was a dark object at the top of my otherwise lit tree.</p><p>So I made a few tweaks to the model so I could incorporate some LEDs:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.adafruit.com/product/2226">https://www.adafruit.com/product/2226</a></li><li><a href="https://www.adafruit.com/product/4776">https://www.adafruit.com/product/4776</a></li></ul><p>I powered the LEDs with an <a href="https://www.adafruit.com/product/3500">https://www.adafruit.com/product/3500</a></p><p>The LEDs were set up such that the Neopixel Jewel was on the bottom, and I had wires running up one of the spokes of the Tree Topper to the middle level where the Neopixel mini button is. I tried to hollow out one of the spokes to hide the wires completely, but I kept messing that up, so I skipped that for now.</p><p>Source code for LEDs: <a href="https://github.com/techfreek/tree-topper/tree/main">https://github.com/techfreek/tree-topper/tree/main</a></p>