Designing a Cyberpunk Headphone Holder (With RGB!)
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
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Consider attaching the mounts to a panel (wood or acrylic) that can then be "picture frame" mounted with the same attachments. That would hide the wires behind the panel. The panel could be painted the same as wall(or an accent color & could include additional rgbs in it) then only a power wire comes out behind the panel and is hidden enough where your left speaker is.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. mounting it to a cool square of nice wood, passing the wires through the back. that way only one of the wires will be visible, the power
The panel could also feature some of the same design elements, too. The white wall doesn't really fit that well, but a square with cut corners, maybe some additional lighting effects, painted to match the holders, and suddenly it's not only clean but a thematically-complete piece.
@@oasntet Or a nanoleaf-style construction.
My thoughts as well. A wire guide could be cut into the back of the panel so everything sits flush with the wall and the wires are completely hidden.
The first idea that came to mind, if he doesn't want to run wires through the wall because of the effort involved, another option would be to route a channel directly into the drywall, lay the wires in the channel and cover with plaster and paint to make it disappear, embedded into the wall.
Usually when wires have be exposed I would hide them in a surface mount raceway. How hard would it be to print a backplate to mount your holders on leaving a channel to hold the wires? This would solve two problems: hiding the wires and squaring the holders to one another.
Had the same idea- wooden panel painted the same colour as the wall, mount the hooks onto that ( perfectly spaced ) and run the wires in a channel on the back- wouldn't need to be very thick and with a beveled edge it would barely be noticeable.
I had the same thought. To extend this idea, embrace the elephant in the room and 3D print the raceway in the ‘pop’ color filament (purple/orange) so the raceways become part of your intended design.
And then paint the raceway the same color as the wall...
To stay with the synthwave idea make the cable raceway shaped like either geometric shapes (about the size of the holders) or make them look like traces on a circuit board.
OMG, that Casio VL-1 brings back memories! I had one as a kid in the 80s.
My Dad found his recently and I've borrowed it :)
@@MakersMuse It was neat you could create your own sounds, but it always bugged me you couldn't recreate the demo tune which became highly annoying the second time you heard it (and forever more) :)
Very cool build. The term you were looking for, for when light makes certain materials give off a specific colour, like your purple light making orange in certain items "pop" is called "fluorescence" .
Another way to do wireless lighting for you headphone holder, drill a small hole up though the bottom of your acrylic. it only needs to go in a centimeter or so and a rough hole is actually better than a hole with smooth walls for this. Then you set up a small laser behind a piece of furniture that is on the same wall as your head phone holder (you will still have to plug in or otherwise power the laser but even a cat toy laser might be bright enough for this). Aim the laser beam up at the little hole you drilled into the bottom of your headphone holder and the rough cut walls of the hole along with the sanding job you did to the rest of the acrylic will diffuse the beam through out the acrylic lighting it up. The beam will be invisible until it interacts with you headphone stand (so invisible and efficient wireless power) and as long as the beam is running only a centimeter or two away from the wall there is very little chance that it can shine in someone's eyes so it is pretty safe.
The dirty trick I used to get large prints to stay flat is to remove material from the inside of the face that touches the print surface. This allows the mating surface to get a good bond to the print bed before there are forces trying to pull it up, while also reducing the magnitude of those forces.
I have also cut channels in my prints to break up the surface against the print bed. Again, this is an attempt to change the way the forces of shrinking interact with the parts that are bonding to the print surface. Usually a grid pattern works. That way each square of the grid gets a goodbond to the print bed before layer 2 or three connects everything and starts trying to shrink the part.
If you make the channels or holes a single layer deep then the slicer will usually not bother adding support, and the bridge settings will take over.
My go-to tools for wall mounting are painter's tape, a measuring tape and a laser level. You can mark out spacing on a wall without permanent damage. It's especially handy if you're going an overall shape made of various sized frames and the like.
A fluorescent filament (or paint) should glow pretty brightly when a black light (UV-A) is shined upon it. So one option would be to mount a spotlight with a UV-A bulb somewhere and point it at the headphone mounts. That would make the edge really pop without adding more visible light to the mixture.
And hey, even if a little visible light does leak, it'll probably play well with the rest of the lights you've set up!
Just what the doctor ordered! Thankyou, sir.
You really stepped up your game since 2020. Been following you for like 3 or 4 years and you helped me SO much.
I got a nice job as a 3d-printer technician repairing and maintaining 3d printers.
I am so grateful for your content and I always enjoy your videos.
Keep going Angus and keep inspiring us
Bloody heck, that is brillant. Love how you used laser cutting, 3D printing, and electronics along with that insane visual asthetic.
6:52 that's some mad scientist' laugh, fair dinkum. BTW, 'complementary' colors tend to vibrate, as they are opposite each other on a color wheel
Great project. You could consider mounting them to a piece of painted wood and hide the wires behind that. You could even space the wood away from the wall with a spacer and put more RGB behind that
Another way to hide those wires - create a floating panel to mount them on instead - then the cables can go behind the panel ;) Also as you have a acrylic cutter you could have built a shape with that, layer of opaque acrylic on the outside face, then the same clear acrylic underneath with the same RGB edge lit effect.
Lots of ways to do it without the wires showing and make more of a feature from it at the same time.
What you could do is to mount the holders onto a panel that spans the wall width area or part of it and then run the wiring through to the backside of the panel and secure the panel to the wall. You could then run the power feed wire down in the corner or via a nice discrete conduit. If it's you own home and you have O.C.D you could even run the wiring inside the wall. There are all kinds of options depending on how much effort you want to devote to it.
You have four mounts in a box/grid pattern. If there were interconnecting plastic strips/covers for the wires if would go a long way to hide them. The grid would be a part of the design. It would make the whole into one piece rather than four. Additionally, you probably could use a lot thinner wire. The current being drawn by the few LED elements would not require thick wire.
Mount the holders onto a panel and hang that on the wall with the wires behind it. You could use an acrylic sheet and stand it off from the wall to make it look like it’s floating in front of the wall. You could even edge light his panel too!
I've modded half of my AKG K92 to have a 1m cord instead of a 3m one. Pretty easy to shorten the cable by taking apart the ear cup, de-soldering the wires, shortening, then re-attaching the wires.
Really liked the loft cut! Never thought of doing that
0:20 MAGNUM BULLETS!
A truly amazing NSP animation.
"A sweet synthwave aesthetic" +1 gangster moose
Pro tip: to store any wire cleanly, wrap it around your fingers, leave a tail, then wrap that tail around the middle of the bulk (between middle and ring fingers, but don't keep it around them as you wrap) and pull it through one side. It stays pretty much indefinitely, looks clean, and won't tangle.
Looks awesome. Just make a mounting plate to attach the 4 hooks to and run the cables behind. Then you’ll on have one cable running up to the hooks.
3d print some wire raceways in a T form, such that you can mount additional LEDs on the back (facing the wall). Then you could have it show how the electrons get to the headphones.
Glow in the dark filament in the center would also probably be nice
I like it when things look as how they are made. Such as those cables in plain sight.
As for hiding the cables I would use a piece of plyboard with the cables going through it and then everything is hidden behind out of sight. This way it can all be done on a bench then hung where needed. Or the tech youtuber go to wall, pegboard. Pretty cool ideas though, quite enjoying the office makeover series. Also for the highlights strip, try transparent green pla. I have found it 'glows' under UV light
That was a long way to go for a headphone hanger. Heroic effort!
Two thoughts:
Glass bead blasting gives astonishing surface finish.
FFC (flat cable) is very flat, you can glue a piece of wallpaper over it.
There is neon pink too, and some whites light up blue in UV as well (if they contain optical brighteners). The effect is fluorescence and it's when a material can absorb light of a short wavelength and give it off as a longer wavelength. Most such pigments is reactive to UV/blacklight and many are reactive to blue as well. I've seen some colors like yellow and orange fuorece from the modern bright green LEDs but it might be that they give of some blue or UV light similar to white LED's, I'm not sure.
Another thing you could do is to get cables that's harder to see, like with clear insulation, or maybe magnet wire.
Print parts out of ABS and then do the acetone vapor smoothing. I think it should look madness. ;)
In my opinion, you could use some cable duct. You can buy flat ones, that you could cut to the length to you need, and even paint it with the same paint you used on the walls. That's how i hide the ugly thick cables of my projector on the living room ceiling. Anyway, great design and great project, keep up the good work!
You could print a display piece to cover the wires like your logo, or headphone image. One other thing is add a dummy strip at the bottom so it looks like a picture frame and add an image in the middle.
Very nice solution. For the wires, if you can't hide them you could try designing wire conduit or wire clips which add to the synthwave look. I'm imagining low poly tunnels that run from holder to holder with sharp angles - maybe printed in that purple filament.
Make a square plywood base with a frame that holds the base off the wall enough to hide wires behind. You could cut the corners off to compliment your headphone hanger design.
You can use a acrylic cut to a cool shape and attach the mounts to that.
Just having a translucent neon yellow print running. And it will be combined with PMMA tube. I guess when I'm happy with the model it will end up getting LEDed. Also neon yellow will work great with that purple.
A thin strip of reflector tape could look awesome
Ikea SKADIS. It mounts onto the wall but provides you that gap in the back to hide the cables. If you want to hide the holes you can use a nice poster board. As for mounting things to a wall. Your best friend will
Be blue painters tape and a level you can put all your markings on the painters tape so you don’t mark the walls.
You could mount them to a thick square/rectangle of mdf, maybe 10mm think or something like that. Router channels into the back to accommodate and hide the pixel cables and then paint it the same colour as the wall. Bit more work but it would be a much cleaner finish. Nice little design though, looks great.
Handy project, love Matt’s hub filament, pretty spools 🧵 I’ve ever received 😍
Yeah nice branding and perfect winds!
Another possibility is to mount the holders to a nice piece of wood or aluminum channel which you stick on the wall. Something between a raceway and standalone....stand.
You could also create a 3D printed frame that connects all 4 hangers, with the wiring inside the frame, and then put something decorative in the fame itself. I’ve also tinkered with embedding the wires in the plaster, and then repairing the plaster and repainting. The downside to the latter approach is that it’s permanent, while the framing method can easily be removed.
P.S. I prefer to leave the cords dangling, or just making 1 big loop, instead of wrapping them up, but that’s not possible if the cords are very long.
I had that white Casio music calculator when I was young. Good times.
Synth wave... the best of strange music I believe.
You can get rolls of flat, thin, and white "cables" designed specifically for sticking to walls, and optionally painting over, in order to power LED strips, connect speakers, etc., without the wires being at all visible:
m.aliexpress.com/item/2036527967.html
It looks like it's essentially 2 or 4 strips of copper tape covered in a layer of white insulation - and you could absolutely achieve the same result with regular adhesive copper tape and something to cover it, but using this stuff looks much easier and personally I'd rather use the pre-made 2-or-4-conductor tape unless I had a very tight budget, especially given how delicate copper tape can be, and its tendency to stick to itself and/or crease up...
The AliExpress seller of the item I linked above seems to be the only manufacturer/seller of this particular type of product - when I checked a few months ago, at least - so their prices are maybe a bit higher than they would be otherwise, but the 2-conductor stuff isn't too expensive IMO - around £1.50/metre for the one I linked, though they have various widths and thicknesses for different current ratings, so make sure to choose the right one.
The 4-conductor stuff is around twice that price, which can add up fast if you wanted to run it all the way around a room, for example, but if you just need to get 2-core power (by which I mean "not requiring an earth conductor, 3-phase, etc") a few metres to an Arduino to control the LEDs, then short runs of 4 conductors (RGB+common) between the 4 headphone mounts, this might not be too expensive an option :)
Of course, I don't know *how* sticky these strips are, nor if repainting the wall when it's removed would be an issue for you, but it might be worth considering :)
(I'm allowed to repaint this rented property as much as I like as long as it's back to its original colour when we move our, and we already have a lot of scuff marks and cat scratching damage I'll need to paint over, so I'm not too put-off by the thought of a bit more future painting in the name of aesthetics or convenience today, but my landlady is slightly above average - not a high bar, I know...)
Other comments suggest flat-flex cables (FFCs), and I imagine they would work, but they're typically intended to carry lots of low-current signals over a short distance, not a small number of high-currents over longer distances. I don't know how easy it would be to find, eg, 5-metre FFCs at sensible prices - and connecting to them on either end sounds like it would be a pain!
Disclaimer: I've not used this stuff myself, so I can't make any claims from experience. I just spend a lot of time browsing AliExpress from my phone, so I discover all kinds of neat things (and lots of weird things!) 😸
On the aesthetic look of them, the angles & lighting effects are great, definitely what we thought looked futuristic back in the 80s, but you shouldn't have worried about trying to hide the wires, you could have 3D printed lit-up conduits that look like circuitboard tracks joining the holders together. You have to remember that electronics were new & cool in the 80s - think "Tron", even the tabletop Tron game I have has a dark transparent shell so you can see through it to a picture of a circuitboard with silver tracks on black background. Not the actual circuitboard (which is still quite interesting) but a mocked up picture of one!
the directional audio at around 6:50 scared the living shit out of me
lol whoops
Mount the hooks on a mirror and drill through it to hide the cables behind. Reflections could enhance the effect of the lights.
I would 3D print cable covers that make it look and feel like part of the design. If you cannot get it level, here is a trick. Mount them in a Z pattern and make then even more offset.
Oh, and great design. Love your videos.
I figure you could attach yet another cable to the cables. The kind that gives USB cables some lights along the cable. More synthwave. :)
what about mounting a small laser on the floor or ceiling, and aiming at the parts?
This is genius. Angus please accept this answer!
Instead of insulated motor wire, try using flat flex cable or custom flex pcb. With a custom flex pcb, you can get flat against the wall and have more of those synthwave angular lines. Fusion 360 now has a pcb design workspace, it should be pretty easy to get your feet wet.
Solar garden light from pound shop / dollar store. Strip it down for parts to make your strip glow without cables.
Hey, i also have one, a casio, still working 40 years later. Great to see it in your video
maybe try glow in the dark filaments for the middle bit?
Yeah I reckon they'd work really well!
I'd mount the hooks to a backer board to hide the cables. Then position the board so that the hooks are level. Use random cycling RGB LEDs so you don't need the arduino driver and power them by battery or Solar PV.
If wire has to be visible then be unapologetic about it and make it a feature eg mount the headphones in a vertical stacked line and use LED/acrylic/3D printed trail between the hooks as a continuation of the LED features within the hooks; or if you like the square arrangement then have the light ‘exit’ out the top of a hook and then change direction and ‘enter’ the top of the hook to its side and so forth around the whole path
So now you've got a really flashy cool set of mounts on a bare boring wall. Put a hex pattern or some other synth-inspired pattern on the wall to finish it off.
Now that's one hell of a wide monitor
Tudor Razvan yeah, it like a tv
For the wires you could flatten them down and cover them with paper masking tape then paint the same colour as the wall. Not perfect but will help to hide them.
For level, hang a weight on string for vertical and then get a horizontal off that using an object with a 90° angle like a CD case.
Looks amazing
The cable is definitely not appealing in its current state, but rather than trying to hide it, perhaps you can incorporate it in the design. The Makers Muse logo has sharp points. Have your headphones at each point and use the cable draw your logo on the wall. Use this as an excuse to get more headphones as well!
If you mount the hooks to a wooden plate you can make grooves in the back for the cables. I think that could look pretty neat if you paint the plate the same color as the wall
rather than mounting them directly onto the wall you could mount them onto a board and run the wires on the back of the board. you them get a bunch of additional options for what you want to do with the board. personally I'd go with a multi-layer board with (from back to front): shiny black plastic (or maybe a thin sheet of polished dark metal), clear acrylic, opaque/cloudy/frosted acrylic (or something similar). then maybe upgrade the RBG by making each strip individually addressable.
Get an I Bar level, and use a dry erase markers on the metal part to mark out the distance you want the devices apart. This way, no paper used and all you need is your level, ruler, and dry erase marker.
Another nice video
A simple way to deal with the cables would be to mount the brackets to another surface ( wood or some sort of aluminium composite panel ) and mount that to the wall. Then it would be easy to hide the wires behind that panel and on the theory of if you have a problem make a feature of it you could offset this panel from the wall and add some more LEDs so there is a glow around it.
There are also simple controllers for those LEDs easily found AliExpress for a few dollars with all sorts ( infrared , ultrasonic ,) remote controls or simply stand alone
Attach the 4 mounts to a board or something, use you imagination and light it up as well. Then you can hide the wires behind or within the assembly.
If you can’t hide the cables, show them off. Since it’s sort of a cyberpunk design, put in longer cables and stick them to the wall in a circuit board like angular pattern
You could print a cable raceway to cover up the wires and paint them the same color as the wall. But awesome design! Love the synthwave design!
You could laser cut some synthwave inspired zig zag or pattern lines and use 3 enameled wires which are finer to follow the lines that way they would be easier to hide
You should try to make a plate on the wall to hide the cables. You could just get some cheap fake adhesive wood planks to make it look great.
For these low powered projects I like to use old school telephone wire. It's pretty clean
i would have used a synthwave pattern to hide the cables
like the hex feature you have on the other wall or even just chamfered boxes laid out in that circuit board esq pattern that synth is so fond of
that way, the cables just sit behind or in the feature and the head phone holder set is as much art as it is function
I caught those glimpse of the Magnum Bullets music video, good choice ;)
I would use some neon acrylic. That stuff glows like there would be a light inside ;) great video, love the result 👍
Yess I need to track some down, forgot how much that stuff pops in the right light.
How about illuminating the Perspex with lasers?
Mount a powered box on the top of the wall, with lasers pointing down, to avoid the dangling headphone cables blocking the light?
How thick is the wall? Use induction from the other side - might be cheaper if your neighbour pays the bill ;-)
Use fibre optics, which might be more in keeping with the Synthwave aesthetic?
I did a wall-mounted headphone hanger, but the headphone cups left stains on the wall. I've had some ideas about making a new version I can stick on an Ikea Skådis pegboard to protect the wall (and also hang assorted other junk on), something like that would let me hide the wires behind the pegboard. To Fusion 360!
Love this, another option for perfect spacing and hiding the wiring could be mounted to a backboard, a piece of board done up like a photo frame.
Build it on a picture frame or a hard plastic canvas, you can go evem crazier with colors and have art when the headphones aren't attached, and only have 1 cable going out from the bottom.
A linear orientation would make the wires less unsightly. Maybe diagonally across the wall?
Maybe could have mounted everything on a board so the wires can run behind the board and have an exit route on the bottom right. This will make it easier to space out all 4 holders evenly and only need 1 or 2 hooks behind the board kind of like a picture frame mount.
Awesome.
Keep on living your dreams.
If you want to hide the cables, may I suggest making the mount 1 piece instead of 4 separate holders, sort of like a rack, and then you can hide the cables in the back of the rack
Love it! You don't need a level. If it looks good, it's level. I have used levels sometimes and whatever I was hanging still looks off because of some other aesthetic nearby. That said, as others have mentioned your phone probably has a level in it :). Or measure from the ceiling/floor.
I love the stand
Is anyone else worried about that evil villan laugh after the strips lit up? Like an Evil RGB villan, we do know thats where all villans start off, ya know, with RGB
An easy way to hide the wires would be to Dremel a light track in the plaster and replaster/paint over the wires.
if you have florescent arcyrlic, the edge will be pretty bright just from reflecting the ambient light
No rgb control
Like some others have said, cable raceway is a great idea. However, don't buy one, print it. In that way you can design it in such a way that it matches your theme. You can even use the same adhesive. And the kicker, make it in modular sections which will allow you to expand it in the future. Why not have a "hidden" cable raceway that like like a simple design across your entire wall. I might even have to take my own advice, with visions of a giant Tree of Life design.
Workstation Setup - OP
Webcam-era - OP
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I'm going to try one out with black sides and Prusa orange strip in the middle.
pro tip if you have an iphone there’s a stock “measure” app with a level, if you have an android i’m sure there’s an app or something you can download
If you had put your hangers in a diamond rather then a square and then using a bit cleaner wires you could use the wires as part of your synthwave aesthetic.
Need a lava lamp dude !!! and I miss the doggy Blonde highlights very 90's Shane Warne
Haha that'd be rad.
Good job mate, a lot of stuffing about for a few hooks but if you got nothing better to do have at it. Quick question have you thought about doing a Q&A series on CZcams to help your subscibers. We could ask printing related problems and you pick the best ones and do weekly videos with some advice. Thanks Angus.
When trying to level without level you can use the ceiling and floor as measure point, as long as your ceiling is straight you should have no problem leveling things
Ohh man very nice project. 👌👌
Future modification could Copper strips in the wall for less cables sample or a little Coil for winding cables of headset.
always looking for the cleanest surface ✨
How about running the cables through aluminium tubes? 6 mm OD (4 mm ID) is enough to route three individual wires through.
Also if you're running all LEDs with the same color simultaneously you can connect them in parallel, giving you more possibilitys to route the wires.
eg:
+ +
\ |
+----+
|
| (to Arduino)
in a U shape, O shape or two colums of tubes running straight down to the floor.
I have one of those casio calculators yes it's a calculator that "happens" to have the capability to "play" music on!
Interesting as always
Thanks for sharing :-)