VIDEO: UC Engineering Students Create Disco Coffee Table with Dancing Lights

It’s a piece of furniture that could be the highlight of any dance party.

University of Cincinnati electrical engineering juniors recently created a coffee table comprised of 128 frosted glass cubes, each capable of emitting 16 million colors. Student designers Max Thrun, 21, of Mt. Olive, N.J.; Ian Cathey, 21, of Columbus, Ohio; and Mark Labbato, 21, of Cleveland, Ohio, also incorporated a special beat-detection software, such that the colored light emitted by the cubes is synchronized to music.

The students created the project on their own time while working recent

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quarters at Texas Instruments Incorporated in Dallas, Tx. They then entered the table into TI’s Co-op Design Challenge, a competition among all the company’s co-op students from schools around the country. And in the voting by Texas Instruments employees, the UC team won the contest!

If you want to create a similar table, the students’ direction for this DIY project is

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