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A wall panel that rearranges its own light patterns

Grigorii Merkushevon TikTok

Original

A custom wall panel from Grigorii Merkushev, shown running a few generated light patterns in a short TikTok clip.

Can I build this?Intermediate · AI 4/5 · $20–50

Difficulty: Intermediate
AI-buildability: 4/5
Time: A weekend
Cost: $20–50

Tools

soldering irondrillmultimeter

Starter prompt

Based on "A wall panel that rearranges its own light patterns" on Afterware: https://afterware.xyz/p/a-wall-panel-that-rearranges-its-own-light-patterns

Write MicroPython for an ESP32-S3 driving a WS2812B LED panel mounted on a wall. Cycle through at least three animated patterns (wave, noise field, pulse) every 30 seconds, and switch patterns on a touch pad press. Keep each pattern as its own function so new ones are easy to add.

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Story

Grigorii Merkushev says he developed this wall panel and built a few patterns for it, and the short clip shows the panel cycling through them. That's about all the source confirms.

The panel is the point here: a wall-mounted surface that treats the wall itself as the interface. If you want to build something similar, the pattern-driven approach is a good starting place. Pick a microcontroller that drives an addressable LED or display matrix, write a small set of pattern functions, and cycle through them on a timer or touch input.