Sunflower-y LED Light

I remember back when I was in college, I came accross a project with PIC microcontrollers where the person created some sort of sunflowery LED panel light. It looked exceptionally beautiful and I wanted to recreate it. But, being lazy as I am, I never followed up on it. I suppose 12 years have passed and finally I am getting to building it.

I learned that this pattern below is a Vogel model, and it's related to Fermat's Spiral, and I just started creating a PCB with this pattern. ChatGPT came in really handy creating a Deno script to create the pattern in SVG. Then a little bit of math and it came right inside KiCAD.

Maybe I'll actually finish it this time.

23-10-2024