Making a Table with a Secret
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2022
- I built a table made for a party and it’s got LEDs, music, epoxy and wireless power!
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The beer holder insert should have been wired for lights as well, with a clear bottom (at least) to light up the ice and the bottles with color, too.
@@nomicwave I agree, provided it didn’t lessen sound quality.
My thoughts exactly!!! Also having speakers with some LEDs aswell would have been nice
@@davidmontgomery9570 S (=smile)
Cool project! Small nitpick though, wouldnt you want the speakers on the side? Wouldnt having them on top make them too prone to being damaged by spillage? Edit: Plus you are slightly decreasing the surface area you can use as a table.
had exactly the same thought, plus they'll fill up with crap pretty fast especially outside.
Or even flush mounted with some anti spillage material covering then
Spillage is a good point, but the surface area loss likely doesn’t matter much since it is just a party “coffee table”. If he had built it to be a dining table then the speaker placement would really effect usable surface area.
Maybe try sound exciters
Considered it, but then realized I want to have the people on the porch enjoy the music, not my neighbors as I would be blasting it at their houses. And these are marine speakers, so spillage is no issue.
Wow! Blown away, the LED integration is incredible!
Thanks, dude!
Cool table! If you do anything similar in the future, you should try a neat trick I discovered that works well for turning on LED strip lights: For my undercabinet lighting, I used a capacitive touch switch. They're fairly cheap, and just plug in. That part isn't the trick, though. I wrapped aluminum foil tape (used for HVAC ducting) around the case of the switch, then ran it to the edge of the cabinet, and put a 1 foot long strip along the edge. You can't see the switch and you just touch under the edge and the lights magically come on. The switch also works as a fader. I found out, there is a limit to how much tape you can use, as at some point (about 3 ft for me) the aluminum tape affects the capacitance of the switch.
Considering you’re a woodworker not a videographer. you do a phenomenal job with your video edits
Thank you, but all the credit goes to Chris our editor 😀
Awesome project man. Way to think outside the box with the white pigment.
I like the fact that you didn't hide all the small mistakes you've made during the build, but shared them with us to help us make our own projects better... AND it turned out awesome too :)
Love the table Brad! Pretty cool seeing the lights working along with the music.
Thanks, Travis! 💪 💪
Nice LED table!
thanks!
"It kinda looks like a cassette tape ... if you know what that is."
I remember. Peppperidge Farm remembers too. :P
Now I'm craving a Milano
@@Fixthisbuildthat Oooh I'll take orange Milano and a bag of Chessmen. 😁
Nice project, it looks great!
Those end grain mitre joint glue ups, I felt your pain. Been there, done that, same frustration.
A boatbuilder friend gave me the answers;
1. Always wipe joint off with acetone first.
2. Tape joint edges to mask anything you don’t want epoxy on.
3. Prime joint faces with thinnish epoxy, about like unthinned varnish is just about ok, but definitely not thicker. Allow to go off until just curing but tacky to the finger.
4. Mix epoxy, then add either silica fibre or microballoons to achieve a smooth peanut butter consistency, or slightly thinner in a pretty close joint. Silica fibres tend to make a stronger joint but it’ll look more obvious where the glue line is exposed.
5. Clamp up, wipe off excess squeeze out and open a beer.
6. Peel tape as soon as squeeze out has stopped but before cure kicks off, extremely satisfying with a beer in hand. 😁
Hope that works for you, it has for me.
This turned out really cool. I need to make one of these for my back patio, when I get to my back patio renovation. Never seen those battery adapter things before and they are a great little tool. I will definitely be finding a reason to use some of those.
Yay, new video by my favorite woodworking channel
Hope you liked it!
Great project, Brad~! Nice to see that you included the footage of how you avoided disaster instead of letting it hit the cutting room floor~! Something like this might wind up on our deck. Thanks for the inspiration~!
glad it sparked some ideas for you
Agree with the person about the speakers being on top (spills) and also some kind of cool looking boxes to house the speakers for a bit more bass response. Nice job 👍
Awesome!
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Early 80's cassettes came with a free rewinder...had a point on one end, and a soft rubbery end on the other.but i was happy when the power rewinder came standard with all tape decks. :-D
until it popped the tape on you, lol
Braaaaaaad!!! Perfect. Good job. I don’t believe. Congratulations.
Thanks, dude!
I thought the LEDs were gonna be too much, but it turned out amazing. Awesome table :)
Thanks!
@Lourdes My thought exactly. "Why mess it up with LE...wait a second!"
Yeah, That's bad ass. I can imagine the results of the final product made all the challenges worth it!
Thanks, Scott. It was definitely a labor of love. Kicked my butt for quite a while, lol
That turned out AWESOME......great job!!! You've got the coolest table ever!
Thank you, Lori! The kids LOVE it :)
very good. I would round off all corners and edges because I have a thing about someone falling on sharp edges. Also, reinforce the underside just incase the table is used for spontaneous after hour activity 😊
I am so much inspired by this idea. Gonna make one. Thank YOu!
Glad you enjoyed it!
awesome table... sounds and lights.
It turned out great.
thanks!
Appreciate the video good sir. I'm a software engineer nerd who got into a lot of wood working so this was a great video for me. Love the epoxy cuts going down the sides as well. Also love that CNC machine you are using!
Great project and build. The led effects look cool. I like the running lights, it needs one where it starts in the middle and runs outwards, like a dual water fall.
Nice save with the frame. I think the frame makes the table look better from the sides, not just 3 mitred planks. You also have a nice flow of the frame around the electronics panel.
I'm surprised that you didn't pocket hole from the frame to the leg panels. Wouldn't it of given some extra strength to the miter and tightened the glue joints?
The best part was when the LEDs got synced with the music 👌 very cool!
yep, it felt good to see it work!
Your enthusiasm makes me happy
This is really nice! Can you update on what playing time you get from those batteries? Curious if they would last a whole party or just an hour or two. An in depth follow up video about the electronic parts would definitely be interesting! Thanks for the great build video!
I can't really give you a definite answer but we could calculate the approximate consumption of the components:
the D1 Mini is well below 100 mA (so let's just ignore it) and each of the LEDs (or rather LED-groups, but keep it to LEDs for now) of the WS2812b strip below 50 mA (50 mA is the maximum for full brightness). I'd suppose he uses the strip with 60 LEDs per meter and I think his wooden board was around 2 meters before he cut it, ie probably a maximum of 100 LEDs per column (there are four full-length columns and three with the bottle-cutout. Let's be generous and assume 600 LEDs. This would sum up to 600 LEDs * 50 mA per LED = 30 A. All those are at 5V.
Now take the 20V battery with 6 Ah which provides (20V*6Ah=120Wh) 120 Watt-Hours of Energy. Typically, not all of this energy can be used (there are different processes where loss happens), so perhaps around 105 Wh are effectively usable, which would be 87.5% of the rating (I also implicitly added the loss for the step-down of the voltage from 20 V to 5 V, here).
So, the battery provides 105 Wh, the LEDs use a maximum of 30A * 5V = 150 W. This would leave us with only 42 minutes of LED-fun (105 Wh / 150 W = 0.7 h).
Now, you probably don't want to use the full brightness exclusively (it would be just a bright, white light strip). Each LED-group consists of three individual LEDs (red, green and blue) and you'll probably use a mix of them. So, instead of 50 mA for each LED-group you only use 30 mA (a 66% increase of battery-time up to 70 minutes). Additionally, not all LED-groups are on all the time (they are addressable, hence the D1 Mini), which can easily double or tripple your battery-time (or even further, depending on the LED-mode you program).
Your videos make me more confident about doing bigger/more complex projects
That transition at 07:43 was nice!!!
Thanks, Jay. Chris is killing it on the edits!
That catching the edge of the frame on the clamp transition was great! I legitimately thought you had caught on something and were about to knock everything off your shelves at first! I've never seen a cut like that before. Very fun!
WOW!!!!! The day you posted this, Timberland is already sold out of those boots........BUMMER!!!!!! AWESOME BUILD!!!!!!!!
That’s one cool table you made. Impressive design and well executed. Kudos!
Wow, that’s freaking awesome!! Looks amazing!! I wish I had the skill set to make that. Great Job!!
Looks amazing! It's always fun to pull up your videos and watch you build something successfully after getting frustrated with issues in my own shop.
The project is awesome, and you are a delight to watch!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the most well thought through RGB strip integration I have seen.
- doesn't look shabby when it's off
- functional and not all to distracting
- looks awesome and fluidly when its sync to music
Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you! I put a lot of time and effort into it, so I'm glad it came off well
Absolutely fantastic project, love your presentation too, as always!
Brilliant, Brad! Really fantastic design and work! 😃
I really loved the idea!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks, MC! Stay safe down there
Very cool project. I may have to try something like this when I get my porch finished.
You should!
These power tool batteries usually don't have any undervoltage protection, since the protection often is built into the tool, not into the battery. I would highly recommend to add some sort of undervoltage protection into the circuit.
Also these small step down converters are only rated for 3A, which is only enough to power 50 addressable LEDs at full brightness in white. Also due to the higher current required for 5V LEDs (which causes a voltage drop along the led strip) you usually shouldn't use more than ~150 LEDs in series, unless you splice in the 5V again.
But overall I really like the project.
Very nicely done. I was wondering how all those grooves were going to look. Pretty awesome; is the verdict. I bet you can even program it to have a waterfall like look playing to the sound of, well, water fall! 😁
Such a cool project!! Outstanding.
Great works I need to upgrade mine now. Lol awesome
Thanks, James!
That is fantastic, not just the end result but the journey to get you there. A pleasure to watch 🙂
Love the table, Brad. WOW.
You should look into a way to place the LED strips from the top next time. They have a glue strip and that'll help you a bit. With my last (and so far only) project of that sort, I placed the LED strip in, put the wire through a tiny hole, and with some hot snot in the hole I could epoxy the whole thing into place. Sure, they can't be removed anymore, but that's the tradeoff for having this thing look that good.
The LEDs or connections are likely to fail at some point, but also they get hot. Having the bottom open allows them some ventilation.
You are so cute dancing to the best! 😆 Love that project, you did a great job!!
😀🕺
Loved the transition as 2:33
WOW, indeed! Great thinking outside the box-and table.
So awesome you had your daughter in the video to help.
Extreme;y well done, good sir.!.!.! GREAT JOB.!.!.!.!
Love the table! I'm curious, if you had made the channels on the top deeper to give you more stability, would you have still used all white epoxy, or would you do a clear layer with the white on top? I feel like if you went deeper with the white you'd start blocking too much light.
Yup, exactly. That's why I was trying to keep in thin
Great project! Loved the end result!
About how long was your build time? Curious about the actual labor time & number of days you spread it over.
Very Very Cool! A lot of work but man what a beautiful table! Outstanding work and creativity, love the end result. Very clever all the way around! Thank you for posting, GREAT
Appreciate the support!
Very cool project! Nice touch with the music. I mean... who doesn't love music with an ice cold Sam Adams!
looks really nice, as long as you don't look at the bottom ;-) maybe a nice panel to cover everything up? (which you can remove if you need to fix things)
Wow you’re amazing. What a beautiful pay-off for all that hard work! Love all those lights with the music. You have so many skills. Thank you for sharing them💕👏🏻
You're welcome!
As it's a table that's intended to go outdoors (And in the vicinity of alcohol), I'd probably have gone for some outdoor speakers to give them a fighting chance against spilt beer, or maybe find some very thin black synthetic rubber sheet to stretch over wooden rings and make some press fit speaker covers for them. This would lose you a bit of treble, but not as much as half a pint of beer in the tweeters would cause. :)
Apart from that, it looks pretty smart.
Those speakers are marine rated so they can get wet.
They are marine rated speakers, bring on the beer!
Very well done.
thank you!
Nice! Curious if there was a reason you didn’t just put the LED strips in the holes before the epoxy pour, and just pass the wire through a small hole to the back?
Can't speak for him. but the mitre legs and the way the light strips go around the join would have made that incredibly complicated.
Loved the wipe at 2:30 :D
That’s pretty cool, I like how it goes with the music
Truly Awesome!!!
thanks!
Just a note that the buck converter is limited on the amperage and I would estimate it claims say 3 amps but at most can handle 2 amps and likely designed for 1 amp continuous. Just note it may die.
Yeah, it was buzzing and I actually ordered a 5A one to replace it 😀👍
Isn't this the XL4015? They say it's 5 Amps, is it just 3?
@@MayankJairaj The IC was a LM2596, which is rated for 3A. With an estimate of ~300 LEDs on this project (5m of 60LED/m strip), that would be 75W peak power consumption (i.e. all channels 100% - ~0.25W per LED in case of WS2812), which is 15A at 5V. I personally would have used a 10A buck converter (price difference to 5A really is marginal). Still, even with limited power, many controllers/firmwares (like WLED) offer maximum current limits that dim overall brightness as to not exceed the power supply output. If that is properly configured, there should be nothing to fear.
VHS tapes took forever to rewind you could call a friend up on a land line phone and talk about your day.
lol, no doubt. Or just flip it over and hit the b side!
Great job!
Loved the end result! Looks awesome!!!
Awesome design Brad!! Always great videos.
thanks, dude!
Awesome design and build! Love the LED effect!
Thanks, guys!
Great Job. Very well done.
Thank you very much!
works great very happy with it
Wow! That’s awesome! I’m inspired.
Thanks!!
Dude!!! This is epic!!!! Love this!!!! Gives me a great idea for my desk I am building.. 😉
Thanks, dude!
@@Fixthisbuildthat BTW.. super late side note.. Were you at Vid Summit last year? I thought I saw you but wasn’t thinking straight… there was so much going on.. lol…
Brad great build. I like the process which is what we all really go though trying to bring it in correctly. I have been watching you for a long time first time I have commented. I have you flip top stand plans plan on making it soon. Thank you
Great project! Love to see that you had a few issues and had to come up with solutions… like it happens in real life 😉
That saw setup is simple, but brilliant!
ok, that was incredibly cool. wasn't digging the LED's until it synced to the music, but that's slick.
That is the definition of a cool build. Well Done 👍👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
thanks!
Great work and fantastic editing on this, I loved the first wipe when you carried the glue up off
If this is going to receive any sunlight, you will want to make sure your finish is uv protected, with several coats. The Total Boat epoxy resin will soften in sunlight, which could cause it to drop.
On a covered deck with minimal exposure 👌
great build!
That is super cool! I might try something like this.
Thanks for sharing that tip on how to glue the boards up. That was awesome for a beginner to know. I also like the epoxy and LEDs. That was cool.
Glad it helped, that's one a lot of people miss
I liked that tip too. Now if I can just remember it when I go to glue something up. 😂
AWESOME table. Like the way the music makes the lights change.
Holy smokes!! Well done!
Wow thats so cool!
thanks!
Nice build! “Life Moves Pretty Fast. If You Don’t Stop And Look Around Once In A While, You Could Miss It.”
nice effect with the LEDs… and excellent beer in the tub…
you have good taste in beer. Interesting clip.
This is an awesome project! Where did you find info for hooking up all the electronics? Would love to set something up similar for my kids but not sure where to start with the electronics. Great work in this table!
really cool project but I would have put the speakers hidden flush with the top.👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
You gotta work with what ou got sometimes
Really cool!
Seriously cool!
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Wow the video composition is tight as the wood! Pretty well done!!
Pretty good!
Very very nice!
thanks!
That is really Cool. Great job.
Dude...that looks sick. I have to build myself one.