🚨 UPDATED DAILY! BEST DEALS on AMAZON: bit.ly/48FGnUv ☑Check out my sponsor to begin your FREE 14 day trial to Aura: aura.com/chrismaher Recommended: Govee LED lights: amzn.to/3Bn7mod Plates I used: If you cant find the plates at your local store, it looks like amazon has them but they only sell this kind in bulk: amzn.to/2WWfyZz Gorilla Wood Glue: amzn.to/3o3KfqG Painters Tape: amzn.to/3pUMyh1 Wood: Any 1inch x 2 inch lumber will work. Try getting wood that is straight as possible. I covered the back of the project using white poster board: www.dollargeneral.com/artskills-premium-white-poster-board-22-x-28.html Links to a few of my other complete how-to projects: RGB Baseboard Trim: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/gZtpfKR-r5yC0mQ.html DIY Customizable Images: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aqGQrqh8mpiJqXk.html RGB LIGHT PROJECT: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qnmTiLCMe2h2lZ8.html LED Strip Diffuser Ideas: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aGlemp-OoYZlk40.html DIY Hexagon Project: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rGmpe695a5eZ2o0.html DIY Corner Project: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/knJmfKeOn4OJr6M.html DIY Edge Lit Designs: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aI-FqH6ieXhk13U.html DIY Govee Glide: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pml9p5-IeIh3wqc.html DIY Black Acrylic Floating Shelves: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bpOkh4OrjZWg0WQ.html Shop Tools: Sliding Compound Miter Saw: amzn.to/303kopD Music used in this video: Song: Ikson - All Night Music promoted by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hGGrqIuEboyLpYU.html Song: Fredji - Happy Life (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/g6qCnYh4eYxys58.html Song: Extenz - Gravity (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/fKGSmKlrj2OI1oU.html Song: Lvne - I Need Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. Video Link: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ep6Yd6ykep1nw4U.html The best way to help support my channel is to like, comment, make sure your subscribed and share my videos with as many people as you can. The other way is to use my links above as I get a small % at no extra cost to you if you buy something. Thank you all for the support!

OOooo! This is the best tutorial for these i think I've seen yet. I will have to try this.

These are absolutely amazing! This is not what I came to look for on UKposts, but I had to watch and have zero regrets. Thanks for such an awesome video!

I love how honest you are in the description. I suck at putting my mind to things, so I've spent most of my 40+ years being a dreamer. I'm trying to overcome that now, so I think I'll give this a try for my kids rooms. I bought some bulk individually addressable WS2812 strips from BTF lighting, but still need to get power supplies and controllers. Anyway, thanks!

Thanks a lot for the video! I just made 17 of them for my home office, they look great! My first big precision wood project...thanks for making it look easy enough for me to try. Had to make a jig to cut these all precisely since I only had a circular saw but worked out.

most ingenious tutorial ever, awesome ! thanks a lot, just made one and it worked prefectly !!!

This will be a great weekend project with amazing results. Thanks man!!! Definitely one of the best tutorials I have seen so far.

So I followed your video, and I have to say I'm super impressed by how they came out!! I love it!!!

Thank you for taking the time to share this, I hope I can try to make my own sometime!

The Hefty plates made me chuckle. This was a surprise, but it makes sense. 😀

This is probably the best of the maker videos for these....... nice work, looks cool and nice project to do. You can probably use chrome reflective tape inside of the hexagon and maybe get away with just using 1 LED strip. Just in case people can't find the double strip LED and only the single is available etc.

Good video. Clear and concise directions. I stumbled on your page and I think you've convinced me to make my own nanoleaf hex project. Thanks for keeping things simple

great job my friend this was a great video to watch and quite inspiring !! THANK YOU

Right now we are remodeling our garage so I can use it as a bedroom and I will be making these Nanoleaf panels for the room

Amazing work, Chris. Thanks very much for the video 🙂

It looks noble, custom and great built quality... and all that for a reasonable price. Well done dude ♥

Awesome. Beautiful. I will start this build tomorrow. I have the same exact sliding compound miter saw, I have the 1x2x8 furring boards, I have 1 package of plates, and the Goove RGBIC LED strips. EXCITED AS HECK. I've been going crazy, "smart-homing" and RBGing my house with all the fun stuff. Liked, subscribed, and THANKS!

I’m just waiting for the Led Stripes and then I’m done:) Great Diy 👍

Awesome video! The instructions were very clear.

great job man, the issue with most of these diy builds are that they have led hot spots which take away some of the attraction but yours are among the few thst look perfect man also i had never thought about using wood but its a pretty good alternative to other materials if u dont want to 3d print

Good job, might have to give this a try

This is fantastic! Great work! I will be making my own!

should have more views! People are missing out! definitely the best diy leaves i have seen! great job

This video is by far the best I have seen on how to DIY a killer project. What I greatly appreciate is there is no really annoying beatloop in the background during the entire video as others do. The only music is during the high-speed parts. I have subscribed and look forward to more projects.

I liked purely out of respect for the video format. Thank you for this.

Great job, I loved the project and its simplicity for that good of a result. I'd suggest that you add the same demo v roll of the finished project at the end. I felt that was a missing piece, like yeah I saw it at the start of the vid, but after the long vid I totally forgot that it looked and had to go back and look at how it ended.

Nice work and great instructions!

Just finished mine and it's up in my office! Thank you for the awesome guide. I ended up using a thin acrylic in front of the styrofoam plate to protect it long term since a broken plate would be terrible! The Hefty plates also had a recycle imprint on them that showed through with the lights so I found an alternative dollar store brand that worked great

That's super awesome! Well done! I'm working on a similar project. I love the look of black gap inbetween the hexes!

Nice build. The plates are a true find.

Awesome idea for people who dont want to deal with learning to program! Gave me an idea for my own video without any power tools :D

I believe you can solder a piece of a previously cut LED strip at the end of the first one so you can have only one input, or if you want to “recycle” some old piece of LED strip (meaning it wouldn’t become useless when you cut it, providing you cut at the right place).

This is awesome!

I think you should raise some of the cells higher than the surrounding cell so you'll get more of a 3D effects. It'll look better than Leaf.

This is an older video and I know you have a table saw now, but I wanted to comment for anybody watching as well. Cutting those slots in the little pieces would be done much easier with a tablesaw on the full length boards. Then you would cut them down to length. Great job coming up with a jig to get this done on a miter saw though! When I first saw you holding that piece like you were gonna cut it, it freaked me out. Thanks!

Looks like a nice project for wled and esp32/esp8266 - thanks for the inspiration👍🏻

I cut out all my plates at once. Cut out the Hex shape, place on stack of plates supported by wood, use saw. Saved so much time.

If you use a strait thing at the top of the pices than they are very allient

That's look awesome man!!! I wanna try it out

Before I saw this I was thinking of the diffuser panels for ceiling lights but that would involve a lot of cutting and waste I never dreamed of using styrofoam. Dude you saved my life 😂

Great video, really good job!

really nice project..

what a great idea

I am working on these at the moment with my dad! I will have a video showing them when they are done.

awesome work!

Letting you know we did this for our sons wall. Smaller section of 12, used a nodemcu with Wled he controls with his phone. It came out fantastic and he loves it.

If you're going to do this again in the future, or with larger ones, I would suggest looking into Plastazote foam. It's commonly used in cosplay to diffuse LEDs.

Great tutorial! Thanks for all the hard work. ;)

2:10 "If you don't have one of these ask your dad" lol

Great project - thx

Nice work

Thanks for detailed explanation. Now i need a miter saw 😁

Hexagons are the bestagons!

WOW! Super RAD! Great job! Stay clean my brotha!

Those plastic plates are actually a good idea!

This is awesome and I hope to make this too.

im building custom LED Stuff for 10 years and never came to the idea to use styrofoam as a diffuser! intersting! i will try it out. i always liked to use acrylic from the manufactor Plexiglas as they offer a wide range of different diffusing acrylic with different transluzient percentages and diffusing effects.

Brilliant project. I might have a go at something like this myself. You sir just gained a new sub :)

Hi you can remove the silicon from the point to cut. Then you need to use the very first led set that is the driver ic to the cut point . That's it enjoy

the same leds can be spliced and cut and joined together. you just need some leads to be able to solder the copper contacts across. Great project btw!

Love the video! This will be my next project. Thanks for the video. I subbed 👍

You can absolutely cut and splice addressable LEDs. You just have to make sure you splice them back together in the order you want the addresses to run. That's why they have the cut points in the first place, and why there are solder pads there.

Try WS2812b led strip with a weMos D1 mini and flash that with WLED it's open source too that's the best way to control ARGB leds🔥

Very nice! You can solder thin 24 gauge wire to the contact points to join them.

Thank you 😀😀

Great video please make more

Try the SK6812 RGBW tape they save a bit of power by having the white led included so you don't have to use the rgb at full brightness white.

I can't make this... But it is the best way to make nanoleaf at home...👍

Got the materials, im gonna try this today

How did you link both the LED strip animations together? Also did you plug them into 2 different sockets or did you get an adapter to plug it into one?

Just go to home decoration market you will find alot of cool and cheap stuff and then customize it You can make alot of nice and cool stuff for cheap without any machines

This is a great video and using Hefty plates is genius... I've been searching for perfect diffusers and this is great. Also, with LEDs that are 30 LED/meter, you need 34mm from the light to the diffuser to get a "spotless" effect.... by using 2" boards with a slight indent (and considering the light source is slightly higher than the back), you managed to hit that 34mm perfectly, it seems. Did you plan that out ahead? If you use LED strips that are 60 LED/meter, you can cut the side height in half... for any future projects.

Great video. Thanks you for all of your work. Now just need my wife to let me buy all the tools.

I believe you can cut led strips and take small wires to solder it back on to the connection points.

I feel so dumbfounded after seeing you use plates that’s genius!!! Going to try this soon

great video!

When you strung the LEDs through like you did, how did you group them in each hex for programming? An example would be hex 1 you'd have LEDs 1-4 and then let's say 80-84. Can you group those two segments so they work together?

I really do like this project. Looks really good. And you described everything exceptionally well. You ever get the SKU number for the wood in the description? Because there is no way that was $1.85 for those boards. Looks like select pine.

Good job Chris, like everyone had said, best video on DIY "Nano leaf" hands down, both cost and the outcome is perfect. Also easy to make, altho i will still 3D print mine just because i am a big 3D printing person. Question on the LED tho, I saw some photos you've attached showing color of the lights matching the ambient/tv screen, was it done manually or did you somehow get it to mirror the color of the screen like "dreamscreen"?

if you use 2812b leds you could cut them and still make the rainbow effect y recomend you using the sp501e controller sorry for my english its not my first langauge

What can you recommend a much cheaper substitute material to the wood frame? Like rubber or styrofoam that is enough as substitute, i want to try

I love this project and I will probably tackle it in the next few months. One suggestion: use a table saw to slot the boards before cutting the edges on the miter. Any thoughts?

Hey Chris this is just what I was looking for. When you made the big one with I think 29 hex led panels. You say you used 2 packs of the 32ish foot kit. Did you waste any the led strip like mentioned on this smaller flower design? how much led strip is needed per hex? guessing 3ish inches per side. Its going to be a task but I am going to make all the cuts here in NC and take it out in pieces to CO for assembly. Im thinking cut a couple hex with grooves on all sides to have some middles and few with various combos and Im sure I can come up with something when I get there that fits the room and combo I have. I would like a way to be able to change it up without being a project itself

Hey just FYI, not sure if someone has mentioned this, but you could've gotten away with using only 1 strip to cover the whole thing without doubling over and/or back. Starting where you did and staying on the right just like you did, and circling around to the 10th one (where you circled all the way around) instead of going all the way around and coming back right there, stop where that last one (10th) connects with the center, go in the center, loop the full center piece, exciting back into the 10th where you came in, then finish the 10th till circle, go into the 9th, and continue back to the beginning now on the left side... Save you some led strip. Hope that helped if it hasn't already... Awesome job though man. Very impressed with all your work. You're about to save me hundreds, probably thousands of dollars without losing nearly any, if at all, quality to the look. So thank you for that my man.

hi Chris I compliment you for the really beautiful project in italy there are no Hefty deluxe Extra strong & deep cymbals, and I am opting for a white acrylic panel, but I think it is not the same thing the only dishes of that brand are Hefty Everiday Soak proof are they the same thing? thank you

Hi Chris, love your projects! Have you looked into wled for your led controllers? You can then use individually addressable led's that can be spliced together to create that single strip you wanted. Also wifi controllable with a smart app and compatible with alexa/ Philips hue etc. Have some really cool effects that would really make these projects stand out more. Keep up the good work man 👍

I got it thanks for

You can buy a cheap soldering iron at Walmart for like $10, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles but it can be used to connect led strips. Only other thing you'd need is a led controller that matches your led strips, it will allow you to control the LEDs and resist the amount of power running through them.

Use a router or table saw on the 8foot piece for the slide cut. Time saving !

Yesterday I have finished the lights and they turned out great, do you have any suggestions how to hide the esp32?

Nice tutorial! Instead of suggested WS2812b you can use newer WS2815. It has DC12V input instead of DC5V. And "with 12v input , the WS2815 LED strip can run longer than WS2812B strip light because of less voltage drop."

WS2812b led stripe and also a microcontroller such as esp8266 which is cheap and easy to use and also comes with built-in Wifi. I also noticed you used the hot glue which might not be the best option as that cool down abit too fast and leaves a gap between those hex pieces.

personally i like to see the end product at the beguining , just a little snipet then to see more details and angles and stuff at the end :) , end product looks good for a very basic build ! next step learn to solder haha :p

Chris, you did an awesome job on the creation and walkthrough. Way to go. I will be attempting this for my daughters and have been looking for a cheaper alternative than the Nanoleaf's. I may need to pick your brain or someone else's brain on the LED's.

Correct me if im wrong cause im not sure either way. But I was told not to lift blade back up while its running to reduce chances of it catching on the cut piece and tossing it out.

Hey Chris this was awesome bro and I’ve seen your other projects but I wonder if you could use something else than a plate for the top of the hexagon or if you could do triangles instead of hexagons

Love your Channel man! Would ripping the (diffuser slit) cut first on a table Saw work better than cutting each individual piece?

You're the man, these videos have been so helpful. On my way to home depot to get some materials now.

The best video I've seen on this, keeping costs down and simple enough for anyone. Not sure if your know already but you can actually use the rest of the led strip you cut away.. It just requires buying a seperate power supply and you can buy crimping connectors which join the strips together.. So maybe you could have extended the first one you used.

Great work. Did you experiment with having the LEDs on only half of the hexagon? I'm curious to know how the lights would have looked had you not added the second, smaller strip.